Pratica di Shadowing: Alysa Liu opens up about her break from skating, her father’s activism, and Team USA journey - Impara a parlare inglese con YouTube

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When I sat back out on ice,
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When I sat back out on ice,
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I was like, I can apply all of my interests into this.
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I mean, most of it was a blur,
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I will say, just because I was so young.
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And honestly, sometimes skating can feel like the fast life,
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especially when you're at that level.
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You got like interviews, you're getting flown out for this and that.
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So it all kind of blended together.
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Also, my brain wasn't fully developed.
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Still not right now, but I was traveling so much
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because of it
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and I was starting to get sick of it I wanted
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to see my friends family like all I wanted to do
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was be at home hang out with my friends like
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and I don't know enjoy life and I felt like all of this training.
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I no longer wanted to do anymore I was never really passionate too passionate when I was younger with I guess
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helping with the programs and really being in the process of it all.
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And so I kind of just fell out of love with it.
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And I was like, after Olympics,
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I really want to quit.
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And that's exactly what I did.
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I mean, I feel like no one really knew I was going to make it.
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So they were all kind of shocked.
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I wouldn't say they thought it was crazy,
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but I think people were confused.
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And I still haven't really fully explained the reasoning for why I quit.
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But yeah, people were definitely shocked.
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And now everyone doesn't mind that I made the decision now that I'm back.
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But definitely when I was gone,
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I'm sure people were like,
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why did she do that?
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Well, I kind of went right into it when I quit.
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I wasted no time.
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I was going to concerts,
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which I never could have done before.
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I also got my driver's license so I could drive myself around,
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drive my siblings, my friends around.
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I did a whole year at college and a little bit of the sophomore year as well.
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I went on vacation for the first time and I went many more after that.
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I went skiing, I went snowboarding.
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I got to do so many different things that I never would have done had I stayed in the sport.
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and yeah I got to experience like real life during
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that time I got to know myself a lot more know
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what I like to do kind of what my passion in life is like what my calling is
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and I love the arts I love dancing and I love music
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and that and I love sports and that's what figure skating is So I kind of realized that as I,
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you know, was taking my break,
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that I loved all those things.
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And then when I stepped back out on the ice,
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I was like, I can apply all of my interests into this.
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And I never thought of figure skating in that way before.
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So I guess my framework, my perspective changed.
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I mean, I think, honestly,
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the first time I got back out on the ice,
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I already felt like I was better.
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Also because I was going through puberty at 16 still,
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so I wasn't adjusting my body yet because I was still like changing.
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And so when I came back,
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you know, I'm pretty much,
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I'm not growing anymore, you know.
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So I just felt stronger,
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you know, my balance is a lot better.
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And I felt more comfortable just skating at 19 than I did at 16,
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funny enough, even though I took two years off.
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But yeah, it's really different,
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but I really like it.
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I went skiing with my friends and my family.
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It was a family trip,
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and I was skiing, and I really enjoyed it.
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And I was like, I want to ski all the time.
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I was like, if I could ski every day,
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I would ski every day.
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But the mountains are far.
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It's like a day trip.
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You have to really plan it.
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And the rink is right there,
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you know, 20 minutes from home.
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So I was like, skiing felt very similar to skating.
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You know, you're exhausted, your legs hurt, you're cold.
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That's like everything you feel when you're skating.
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And so I thought, well,
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if I enjoy skiing so much,
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there's no way I don't enjoy skating.
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Because I've been telling myself that entire time that I hate skating,
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I don't like it.
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But I thought it would be contradictory of me to think that skiing was super fun and skating wasn't skating wasn't.
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So I went back out on the ice,
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decided to try it out,
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see if it really was fun,
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because if it was, then I could do something that I enjoyed every day,
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because the rank is right there,
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you know, it's not like the mountains.
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So I did enjoy that first session,
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and I just kept going back whenever I could.
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Yeah, no, because I was also going to school,
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so I was like thinking it would have to be the weekends.
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Every weekend I would have to try to go skiing,
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and I was like, that's still a drive.
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And I was thinking only the weekends.
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Like, it's so fun.
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I want to do it more than just the weekends.
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And yeah, skating, I can do it whenever I want in the week.
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I really like Heavenly.
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And I think I like,
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I think it's called Mount Rose too.
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Yeah.
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I've never skied outside of California.
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A lot of people are really nervous because they think of the Olympics as kind of the end,
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like the end of a movie.
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But for me, I know that's not the end of a movie,
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you know what I mean?
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Like, there's things I'm looking forward to after Olympics.
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Like, there's so much more that I am anticipating even after the Olympics.
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Like, that is not the end for me.
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And I already did a cycle.
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Like, I know what it's like on the other side.
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And that, you know, Olympics was such a big dream for so many athletes.
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and so it's kind of like that's what they're all doing it for.
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Like they're doing it for the Olympics.
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But my mindset's a little bit different.
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I'm not really doing all this for the Olympics.
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So if I just get sent to Olympics,
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then that's like what happens.
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It's like a side quest in my journey,
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but it's not the end of it.
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Honestly, I mean, I am re it because it's the biggest stage that you really get.
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So many people are going to watch my performance and that's exactly what I want honestly,
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that's my goal.
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Because I'm really excited for my programs.
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I think they're very me and you know I put so much work into them.
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Like costumes, choreography and like just vibe of it.
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And I'm just really excited to display my art.
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It's a lot about like designing,
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picking the colors, like the little details,
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and like the style of the dress.
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Yeah, we gotta get it right.
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So my dress designer, Lisa McKinnon,
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she makes my dresses and she also helps with the creative process.
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But I give her like a vision board of what I want and then we just make little tweaks here and there.
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So it's a very collaborative process,
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but she does all the sewing and stuff like that.
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There's a line for your music.
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You can't just go whenever you want.
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Everyone has a job to do on the ice.
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They all want to run their program.
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So you make a line with your phones.
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Yeah, it's first come, first serve basically.
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If you warm up quick enough and you're ready to go with your program and no one else is,
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you get to go.
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I always put my left skate on first.
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I don't know why.
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It's not really a superstition and if I don't put my left skate on first,
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that's fine too, but I always go for my left boot.
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I don't really eat anything in particular, it's always very different.
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I eat a really good meal though,
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because I need energy for competitions.
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And I eat a lot of Chinese food,
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you know, at home that's all we cook.
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So when I'm traveling around I love to try to find Chinese restaurants
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or Asian food in general
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and I'll usually have like a big bowl of like like a rice bowl or something or like noodles.
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So my father was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests
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and obviously he had to escape China so he did
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and he came to America
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and he continued to organize protests here in front of like the Chinese embassies
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and stuff like that and so I mean they continued to to go after him
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and when I came and became a figure skater and I was gonna go to the Olympics,
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yeah they had sent like a couple spies to the US,
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not just for my dad and me but like for some others as well.
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Yeah and they were caught so yeah.
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What's wrong with you?
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They didn't want you to skate for China?
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I don't think so.
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They just want to bring you back?
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What would they just give an eye on you?
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I have no idea, actually.
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Probably, no, I really don't know.
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But at least in my dad's case,
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it was so that he wouldn't,
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you know, start organizing protests again,
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maybe speak out against the government.
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It's stuff like that.
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They probably worry you would speak out against the government too,
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as this rising athletic star.
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Yeah, which is funny.
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I mean, I do, but I speak out against, like, our government too.
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So, I mean, yeah.
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I bet you get that from your father.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I think I do.
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I do kind of space out for sure whenever I'm like,
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they're playing the national anthem and I'm on the podium.
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Yeah, I mean, that's only happened like once last year.
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So, I will say, yeah,
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I was definitely spacing out.
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When I think of like what it means to be on Team USA going into the Olympics,
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For me, I really just think about my fellow athletes and kind of the whole team and the people,
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our federation that is behind us,
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that supports us during our journeys.
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And I think of all the people that work behind the scenes.
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And so that's what I think of when I think of Team USA.
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I don't think of like necessarily our government.
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I don't even think U.S figure skating is funded by the government either.
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So I don't think we get any support really necessarily on that half.
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But yeah, when I think Chimiyose,
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I think my fellow skaters,
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the directors that work behind the scenes,
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getting us our skates, getting the camps together,
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our flights, stuff like that.
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I definitely do really care about what our country is doing.
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And I think it is really important also to notice the faults in our own government.
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Yeah, very, very similar to my dad.
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Like, yeah, things are a little rough in our countries,
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but I think every government has its issues.
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There's so many protests that are going on,
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and I've attended, and it's, yeah.
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I mean, coming from a family of immigrants,
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like, I think immigrants deserve rights.
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I think it's a little silly, especially in America.
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If I were to pick another winter sport, it would probably be...
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Honestly, maybe snowboarding.
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Yeah, skiing is really fun too.
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We got some talents and really hard workers in this team.
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There's so many good skaters.
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It sucks that you can only send,
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especially in the women's division,
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you can only send three.
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Like if we could send more that would be really cool
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because I think so many of us are really talented and really close and level like It's gonna be a tough pick.
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I don't know how they're gonna do it.
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Let's see Ilia
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Yeah, I mean
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when I left figure skating The men's were kind of completely
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different actually same with the women's all of the skaters I skated with they kind of left
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so I come back and he's here doing quad axle
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and I think that's I think quad axle is pretty cool
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as long as you don't get injured you know what I'm saying but um
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yeah I think it's really cool that he's doing like things no one else does
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even if it's a little weird I think I think being different is good

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