I've seen almost every country do it. If you go over to Asia and you say 'team skating' they'll have no idea what you are talking about. They'll be like, 'oh that's illegal, oh really that's interesting.' It's hard, very hard. Two or three (athletes) of any of the same country in any race is hard. I'll have to overcome that and that's a big challenge.

Every country has a good 500-meter skater, so everybody has a good start. It's all about explosiveness.

Wherever we go we have security. You never know, being Americans walking in a foreign country. I don't feel threatened at all.

I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment.

I got too far forward with my skates. I lost a lot of speed and almost went down.

It might have been his hip and my shoulder, but I don't know. I've got to go back and look.