"You know winning a gold medal on the field of play is one thing that speaks to your hard work and your dedication to being an elite athlete.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

"It is like quite a monumental event, like Elvis dying or JFK being shot or something and yeah, just completely stunned really, so I cannot really imagine a bigger kind of thing happening in my lifetime,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26