The U.S. team has always been welcoming to me. Now I've put that last hurdle behind us, and we can go to the Olympics.

Worlds are still a major goal for us.

I think we have a good shot at worlds. The door is opened a little bit further for us to challenge for that gold medal, and hopefully one year, if not this one, we can get that first American title.

She referenced that when she spoke with us, and she's extremely supportive. It was very, very nice to meet her.

It's really important for us to explain to everyone what an honor and a blessing it's been to feel the embrace of this city. We've always felt so supported and honored.

It was a success for us today to go out and perform it as well as we did because the last time was several years ago when we had just moved up to seniors and we could barely handle ourselves on the ice with this dance.