In 2002, I was sitting at home watching the opening ceremonies, not knowing how emotional it would be knowing I could have been there. I turned it off pretty quick. I don't know what it would have felt like if we'd had to do it again. I'm glad we don't.

Lots of teams feel better staying at home and just taking it easy and building up themselves in training. But for us, it's definitely better to come here. These are the same international judges who will judge us at the Olympics and we want their feedback.

To see both flags waving all the time, it's overwhelming. Usually you only get that much support from one home country and now we have two.

Being sick, we were a little cautious preparing for this event.

I'm so excited, so proud of everybody -- it's an amazing group. We've all been through so much just to get here.

For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say American. That was exciting.