14 Quotes by Luke Bodensteiner

Most of the time they are gentlemanly and friends. Sometimes you say things at the moment that you don't really mean. They talked and it's behind them now.

Carl's not going to retire full on, I can't imagine. The guy's been racing forever and he'll continue to do some stuff for fun. This guy's got more races in his body than probably anybody in the world. He loves it. He never says no to the chance to race.

He went out training today and he's getting better. He's coming around for sure and will be ready for the individual sprint.

When he races, we get as many hands as we can out on the course with bottles of sports drink for him, because at any point he can start getting fuzzy.

I think it's a strange decision, but it sounds like the decision's been made. I don't know that there is a usual way. ... The jury determined they have a chance to get one round in tomorrow and maybe not two, so they're letting the first round stand.

Kris is an ultra-focused, ultra-competitive guy. It's a pretty amazing deal. There's nobody I know in the world who's competing at an elite level in endurance athletics who has that kind of issue going on. It just made him more focused. It was incredible, his reaction.

Our athletes are at a level now that our management recognizes that we really need to add these additional pieces of support to allow them to move up.

The athletes are happy he's sticking around and that he'll be in that leadership role. It's going to be a smooth transition.

There are a select few clubs that do a good job of preparing youngsters. It's fairly specialized, fairly small numbers. Maybe somewhere around 100 total.