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I remember us talking in Sochi about

watching everyone getting gold medals, And all I saw were people winning gold

but then there was that fear that everyone

who was a frontrunner was not getting medals, and it got to be a lot of pressure

their gold medals. Yeah, that was scary

too.
because I wanted it really bad. But, I had to

How do you feel like you were able to deal stop and think about how to get it, instead of

with that situation? I think getting it under

control, knowing that the frontrunners just wanting it.

weren’t winning was just.I don’t know.

focusing on me and not them, like you said.

Just focusing on what I had to do.cause --Maddie Bowman, 2014 Olympic gold medalist

I had to do the tricks right. And, I think the

biggest thing was going out and having

fun. And, once I started thinking about I was pretty sad, because Brita didn’t beat
and if you think about it enough and your
skiing more, I deinitely had fun. I mean, me. (Brita Sigourney, Maddie’s training
muscles kind of remember. You can’t just
you saw at that one practice, that night I
partner, has skill that matches Maddie’s sit there and think about it. You have to
was having a ball.
and could have easily been on the podium move your body too.

after an amazing run in the inals). And
What are your plans for the future? Do you
then, I was just really confused, because
The hardest time for you, that I observed, know? No, I’ll try to do this as long as I
who the hell wins the gold medal (laughs).
was just the sitting around, down time.
And so, it was probably the happiest can.
Yeah, I took the iPad.

moment of my life I would have to say, by

far. It was really cool. I was in tears.
How different will it be going into this
Some of the stuff we did was not that
season as the Olympic gold medalist? I
glamorous. Like you said, it was a matter
think, because I had surgery on my knee,
How have you changed your approach
of inding something to keep you busy, so I I won’t be focused. I want to be the best
to mental training, and what we will do
said, “Here are some movies.” Yeah.
moving forward? I thought mental training again, but at the same time, I just want to

be ok enough to ski. So, it’s going to be
was really dumb at irst. But, it totally
I think my iPad was one of my biggest kind of conlicting, I think. I don’t know.
proved to me that it works. It can’t hurt.
tools while we were over there. Totally.
I’ve never been in this situation coming
It can just help you. Every night I would
back from injury, but I think I’ll be ine.
go through or every time I woke up in the
Brita was ine.
morning, I would just go through my run in
What was it like for you when you won? It
my head and what I wanted to do. And, I
was the craziest thing. I felt every emotion. You just mentioned your injury. We kind

I was really happy because it felt like a was able to do it. I think it’s really useful, of knew you were injured all season, but

million pounds was lifted off my shoulders.
because your body gets that memorization
kind of. ignoring it.

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