Sam took it out first as she normally does. The other girl caught her with about 50 meters to go and passed her. She (Thomas) maintained that margin until the end.

The 1,000-meters and 1,500-meters took a lot of snap out of my legs. And I just didn't feel like myself. That's part of the deal whenever you pick five different events and try to go for something spectacular. You end up sacrificing some time in different events.

We were competitive for the first 500 meters, but we weren't able to keep up. We need to be better in the finish.

It's just unfortunate that I was kind of caught in an awkward position because normally the way I would take that hit, it wouldn't have exposed itself to be a penalty.

He said it actually caught him where they reduced the size of the blocker, where they took some of the padding away, ... It's just unfortunate.

He said it actually caught him where they reduced the size of the blocker, where they took some of the padding away. It's just unfortunate.