The facts are the facts: Without Lascelles on the team, the chances of anything result-wise was very slim. Nothing against the others, but Lascelles is the best athlete on the team. He makes everyone around him better. It's not about the medals, but about sending athletes and giving them the best chance they can have. |
The food is less than average. |
The guys are going to go crazy because we've known all year that we really have a good chance in the four-man. |
The guys showed their true character pushing one hundredth (of a second) faster. That's what this race will be about. If I have the same two runs (today), I'll be happy. |
The road it took to get Lascelles here, it's unbelievable. I thought about that over Christmas and that it would just be horrible that he'd be sitting at home watching the Olympics and we're here competing. |
The thing I found over my career is the Olympics stir up emotions in an athlete or in a person that have never been stirred up before ? and that's something you have to be careful of. |
This was obviously a huge obstacle. The facts are the facts in that had Lascelles not been on our team, the chances of doing anything result-wise would have been very slim. Nothing against the other athletes on our team, but Lascelles is the best athlete on our team. |
Those guys will be trying to kill each other off. Maybe we can slip in there. |
We have a game plan. But in the four-man, anything can happen. |
We tried staying away from the village to avoid distractions in 2002, and it was a logistical nightmare. |
We've been doing a bit of that, too. We've gone to a new sled and back to the old one in two-man. We've had another set of runners. |
What a lot of people don't understand is this year we've actually been better in the four-man. Our sled is suited very well to this track. I've been driving it better here. I know the guys are going to go crazy. We've known all year we have a really good chance in the four-man. |
With him here we've already won. |
Yeah, it was a nice drive. We drove for my first back-to-back wins in Europe to the site of where I won my first four-man race last year. |