With 300 meters to go, I realized my legs were still powerful and I decided to try. Usually someone overtakes me, but today I did not hear any noise and the finish line was closer and closer. I couldn't believe it.

With 300 meters to go, I realized that my legs were still powerful and I decided to try.

I usually finish second in World Cup races but today I performed really well and I achieved a fantastic victory, especially because we are Italy.

The 1,000-meters and 1,500-meters took a lot of snap out of my legs. And I just didn't feel like myself. That's part of the deal whenever you pick five different events and try to go for something spectacular. You end up sacrificing some time in different events.

It realized that it couldn't do everything. But how can we be influential? We decided that we were going to look at big, broad projects and how the Executive Council could make a difference.

Sometimes [the elbow] feels powerful and sometimes it doesn't. Usually the days when it doesn't is the days I pitch well. Hopefully it'll feel worse, I guess. It feels as good as can be expected for the time I'm coming back from a major reconstruction.