You don't get a rest before shooting. There's nowhere to take a break. People on TV will see it as a dinky little downhill before the shooting and think, 'Well, it's easy.' But you've just climbed up a kilometer up to there and you're totally wiped out by the time you get to the point.

You have to measure your success. There's 100 people in the race and only three get medals. We still have a young group. We have a couple veterans. So, we're focused on performances, not results.

These people have gone through so much, ... They need to rest, and they need to recuperate.

once he makes the announcement, it will pretty much put to rest most of the questions.

You have to be Lance Armstrong and Babe Ruth.

Very rarely are they separated. Usually at the beginning of the training we do a couple of shootings separated so that gets them in their own rhythm and I can see all the shots. But then they work together the rest of the workout. They ski together, shoot together, test the skis together.