“I built a lot of speed coming out of the first turn and the last 300 was really solid, ... I had the last inner today which is usually the harder turn to hold and it went really smoothly. I was pretty happy with that.”
“Being this consistent is pretty big for me, ... I haven't felt totally on physically or technically so far this year. But I've still been able to respond to the challenge which is a really good sign for later in the season when I'll be at my best.”
“I contemplated during the race whether I should ease up and re-skate but I was skating so well, ... It's extremely rare to a get a faster time on a re-skate. It's really difficult to know how much the crossover problem affected my final time.”
“I think I must have just lost more speed than I thought on the second turn. If I think back on the race, that's the only part that really felt off in any way.”
“After the race I was kind of mad, I kind of thought I could have done better than that. But then I thought, 'Well I really turned things around and got things going again after the 500.”
“In the last couple of years I haven't had a race where I really did everything right and was really on. So that's something that would be nice to do. But I think it's also important for me to give myself a bit of a break.”
“It's something that was just a strange occurrence. I never ever felt like I wanted to win a race to make up for that. It was more like I always felt I was capable of it (winning gold). It's gold, it's something you use to motivate yourself.”
