This Olympic experience has meant so much to me. Itâs hard to put it all in a short caption, but Iâll say these things:
1. If you wouldâve asked me 2 years ago if I would be here today, I wouldâve just laughed but then taken a long pause. If you wouldâve asked me 5 years ago, I wouldâve said that the only snowboard competitions I will do for the rest of my life are banked slaloms. If you wouldâve asked me 11 years ago, I wouldâve told you Iâm never touching a snowboard again. So to be here today, I am grateful and I am proud of myself.
2. The event didnât go as I had planned and I didnât execute on the vision I have been cultivating for the last year and a half. That feels like a loss that I will allow all the time and emotions to process. A lesson will come out of the disappointment and hard lessons from the past are exactly what got me here today, so Iâm excited to see where this one will bring me in the future.
3. Thank you for EVERYONEâS love and support leading up to this and t...