i was on jay leno's first show back from his hiatus, i had paparazzi stalking me and it was like this that i did not expect because i had won 45 — or something like that — world cups before the olympics, but no—one cared about what happened before — they only cared that i won vancouver. so, it was crazy. it was really crazy. when you're going down — when you're racing, take me to that moment — and it's a minute 30 or two minutes, depending on the race. what's your idealframe of mind during that minute 30? my idealframe of mind is the same state i was in when i won the olympics, and i think that was probably the best state of mind i'd ever been in in my career and it's very hard to repeat. and i think routine is something that's really important for athletes because you want to try to get in the same state of mind to allow you to be, you know, at least from my perspective, i always wanted to be aggressive yet calm, you know? ready and hyper aware but also... relaxed. it's such a contradiction. you want to be all these things at the same time. then, you are through the starting gate and