Daron Rahlves
Daron Rahlves
Daron Louis Rahlvesis a former American World Cup alpine ski racer and freestyle skier...
active course deceptive feels starts
It's a really active downhill. I like how it starts off with two challenging jumps. It's a deceptive course because your speed's not that fast, but it feels like you're going fast.
deal ready
We deal with this a lot. You just have to go back, relax, take a little siesta and get ready to go.
biggest race
This race comes down to me. I'm my biggest challenger.
bring came chance definitely felt lack medals short skiers
This sucks. We definitely came up very short of what we were potentially able to do. ... It really felt like we had a chance to bring down medals in every event. We had the skiers to do that. It's not for lack of trying.
best guys
You see some of the best guys in the world crash. To me, that's what the sport is really about. You want to see guys put down some runs, like Franz Klammer back in the day.
coming far good gotten issue media people skiing stuff trying
As far as the media stuff is concerned, he's gotten a lot of play, a lot of (magazine) covers. That's good for our sport. To me, it's not really a big issue of me getting all the press. It's more like trying to get our sport some press, to get people to know what's coming up. ... What it comes down to, ultimately, is who's going to be skiing faster.
definitely gold hard matter medal olympics walk win
This is hard to swallow. It's not the way I wanted it to end. If you win a gold medal at the Olympics it doesn't matter what else you've done. I definitely wanted to walk away from here on top.
came events mean reason remaining tough walking wheels
The wheels came off today, for some reason or another. (The remaining events don't) mean as much to me as the downhill. It's tough walking away from this one right now.
medal saved ted
I think we should've been able to medal in every event. What Ted did was awesome. He pretty much saved our butts.
putting simple smooth trying
I was just trying to concentrate on the simple things: Putting down some smooth skiing, which I didn't do yesterday, and having fun.
beat tough
He's going to be tough to beat here.
biggest far girls goes trying
I have way more than Bode has as far as a life, I think. He just goes around trying to look for girls all the time. That's his biggest thing.
anywhere knows
That's Bode. He doesn't do anything different. He knows himself. You'll see what he's doing here is no different than what he does anywhere else.
anywhere everybody seeing
That's Bode. He doesn't do anything different any other time. He's been doing it for years. Nothing really changes. Everybody is seeing what he's doing here, but it's not any different from anywhere else.