00:00I mean certainly there was a it was a very long time but at the same time I
00:06think what I'm most proud about this team is the way that we're able to
00:09perform that we went to the Olympics we you know strategize we trained very well
00:13and then went to the Olympics put down great programs and that for that I'm the
00:17most proud and then I'm also really impressed the way the rest of team USA
00:20carried themselves during this period of time where there was so much unknown and
00:24just very thankful for all the people that helped us and helped you know get
00:27us to this position. It is a very interesting situation and you know our
00:30wish as a team was just to be able to have a celebration together and then
00:34also at an Olympics and so you know fortunately this is the closest Olympics
00:38to our our Olympics and it would have been really special of course to have in
00:42Beijing the ceremony was amazing there as well but of course you know having at
00:46the base of the Eiffel Tower was not that either. I'm so thrilled that they're
00:49coming to the U.S. back to the U.S. and particularly Salt Lake City. I think
00:53having been a young kid during the 2002 Olympics and recognizing firsthand the
00:58impact of what an Olympics can do to a town I'm super thrilled to or super
01:02excited to see what the Olympics will do for the next generation of winter
01:05athletes and just you know Salt Lake City is such a deserving spot their
01:09infrastructure is amazing and they're just very very ready for an Olympics so
01:13I'm really excited to see it see it happen in 2034. I would say you know life
01:18has moved on since then I've been keeping busy I've been going to school
01:21studying and and doing things you know meeting new people making new friends
01:25and all that so and I also had the 2022 World Championships where I ended up
01:30winning a medal there and that sort of gave me some closure to what happened at
01:34the 2022 Olympics just a month before that but in terms of the the legal case
01:39surrounding doping and and the medal allocation for the team event that's
01:43been always been there and everyone's been asking me about it that certainly
01:47hasn't helped me forget it but but you know I think finally now we can get
01:51some get some closure for for this specific medal allocation but in the
01:56broader scale the fight for clean sport continues I mean I'm not really in
02:00charge of making those decisions and and I don't really know what's going on over
02:05here but what I do know is that my team and I care deeply about clean sport we
02:11are you know we are strong standing strong in the face of all that's going
02:17on clearly and we're you know committed to the future of clean sport. I think it
02:24was very emotional and overwhelming at the same time but I think that's the one
02:29thing that made this so amazing in 2022 there was COVID so we weren't able to
02:34have like family or an audience and to have an audience while we got our medals
02:38and of course family and friends too was pretty incredible. I think it was a
02:43little bit weird when we were going through security someone asked us like
02:47oh what sport and we said figure skating and they're like oh what but it just
02:51made this moment really special and just one-of-a-kind.
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