Max Gartner
Max Gartner
almost bunch couple events program second shows walked
It just shows that with our program we are contenders for a lot of events right now. In almost every event we have a challenger. A couple of hundredths of a second here and there and we could have walked away with a bunch of medals.
free giant last looking skiing snow three
Erik has been skiing the last two or three days. We're still going day by day. He has been on the snow every day, free skiing and doing giant slalom. We'll have to see. It is looking positive.
front puts ski time weight
Every time he puts weight on the front of the ski boot, it hurts.
exception medal shot
With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.
We take our own. ... We need to have it firsthand.
expect fully italy leave months six surgery
I expect she is going to leave Italy pretty soon. You usually need six months after the surgery to fully recover.
bring deeper disaster home medal people rest wish
I wish we could bring home some hardware, but you have to look deeper than that. You can have one medal and the rest be a disaster and people would say you're doing good. But I like where we're headed.
home surgery
She will go home to have surgery very shortly.
bad great next skiing sure year
She has been skiing tremendously this year. I feel bad for her but I am sure she will be great next year again.
amazing asset biggest cent event gets good hurt load per trying year
We're trying to simulate a lot what the load will be on snow. His biggest asset is his amazing feel on snow. That's why he gets such good speed. But if you have pain, you just tighten up a little and that could hurt that feeling. ... You want to go into your biggest event of the year 100 per cent healthy, that's for sure.
results starts support
With better support you get results and with one or two results it starts to snowball.
course evaluate focus line mountain opportunity run ski strategy whenever
Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.
coaching confident lost medal move potential
We still have medal potential but we've lost two of them now. Anyway, we need to move on. I am confident in the coaching staff. We all need to be very calm.
athletes best calls canada country financial increased intent leading olympic plan prepared race racing strategic technical
Our strategic plan calls for Canada to be a world leading alpine racing country by 2010. With significantly increased human, technical and financial resources, the intent is to have all our athletes be the best prepared to race ever at an Olympic Games.