A lot of people made the assumption that it was in the bank, but it wasn't. I thought Jeremy handled the pressure extraordinarily well. His run was quite good, he just made a little error and it ended up costing us. |
Aerials under the lights will be a little more unpredictable. Safety's always the primary consideration, but I think the athletes are anxious to get through it. |
Certainly, there were three gold medals we could've potentially won. That's why you play the game, though. |
For some of these athletes who haven't been in a World Cup, and won't be in one this winter, this is their chance to maybe go from not being in the World Cup to going to the Olympics. |
He's an individualist. He wanted to stick to that line. We kept nudging him, and he stuck to his guns and he proved right. |
He's become a lot better skier over the last four years. |
He's composed. He's primed. He gets it done. |
I felt our guys skied great. Travis Cabral and Jeremy made some small mistakes, but overall they skied great. Dale was phenomenal tonight. He was flawless, and that's hard to beat. |
I guess this one because it was the last one. |
I think they were prepared coming in. There's only so much you can do. You have to execute at some point. |
I wouldn't have been that bummed if we had three in there. One. That's just not acceptable. |
I'm optimistic. It's easy to be optimistic when you're a year out, 18 months out. But with the group we've got here, they're still skiing great right up to the Olympics, so I'm still feeling good about it. |
It just takes time. It's an extremely difficult sport. |
It was good. He wasn't that far off. If he could have left his feet just a little bit behind him, he would have stuck it and he'd probably be an Olympic champion. |
It's difficult because Americans do things far differently. The athletes have rights. They qualify via criteria. It's not the way that some of these other nations do things, where they just take people and say, 'You're going to do this.' It's a challenge for us to keep up with that. |