If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing.

My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.

In the winter, I'm always in Europe. July and September are New Zealand and Chile camps. I'm always on the road.

Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.