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Jan Hudec: Looking back when I was younger, I just liked showing off to, I think, the other girls, but that’s sort of where the whole thing started from. I’m kind of known for coming out on race day and when the pressure’s on, to take those risks that sometimes I don’t take. I just sort of have a knack for that.

To be in sport, I think if you’re…if you don’t want to be a champion, you don’t want to be the best, it’s tough to compete even at any level if you don’t want to be the best. It’s kind of…I think you’re just kind of there, plucking away with no sort of end in sight.

It’s something that athletes dream about, but not many get to achieve, and you know, lots of athletes get to go to the Olympics, but to have that sort of everything coming together at that exact time, it just seems really pivotal, and I guess we’ll see what happens when we get there. The key is to be smart and to nurture the growth that’s happening now so that it doesn’t sort of just wither away after the 2010 Olympics.

The most important thing will be to sort of keep a sustainable income flowing in. That’ll make a team that can be the most dominant ski nation in the world. 2010 at home is as close to perfect as it can get for the Canadian Ski Team.