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Are you ready for them? I know I am, and now am simply anxiously awaiting the opportunity to step up to the line and put down my best performance possible. Friends, family, media, sponsors... they all ask the same question: "Are you nervous?" And the answer is simple. No. 'Nervous', the way people use it when asking me if I am nervous, usually seems to have a negative connotation with it. As if to ask if I am scared, feeling pressure, afraid to fail at my Olympic races. To be honest, I am more nervous for what's to come after the Olympics. Once the races that I have been focused on and diligently preparing for over the past 4 years (if not the past 20 years) are done, life will go on, and who knows what new focus fate may bring my way. The doors will open for change, and that leaves a nervous feeling as looking forward beyond the games there is a sense of loss of focus and control as there will no longer be One Target, One Idea, One Ultimate Goal that I live and breathe everyday of my life. 

Right now, my Olympic races are just that. The Target is not the medal, but the performance. To have trained so many hours, and so hard, for so long, I believe that to step up to the line of that Olympic race and feel nervous is an insult to myself. Nervous to me means that I think something is out of my control. So if you see me in person, or on tv, in an interview, training, or warming up for my Olympic race, simply wish me luck and notice how there is no nervousness, but rather a sense of calm anxiousness. Because I know what I am capable of on the ice and while some things later in life may lay out of my control, I know I am prepared for this moment in my life and I know I can execute these races exactly how I've been trained to do. I'm just anxious to do that. Thank you all for your support along the way and through the games. I can feel the energy of you cheering me on, even if it's from your couch at home!

~ Happy Olympics, Denny