I have been skiing since I was in school, but I'm not great. I am never going to break an Olympic record, I just want to go down the hills, on red or blue runs, but not... black.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.
I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.
You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.
It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.
I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
Skiing takes so much out of me, and when I start a family, I want to do it 100%.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
I don't want to leave skiing early. I want to feel like I've done everything I can do.
There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.