Mike Danforth

What does it sound like in your head?

Yeah.

You found out you qualified four days ago, right?

Four or five days ago.

Is that?

Yeah.

So you weren't sure if you were on the Olympic team until five days before we're talking to you.

Did you book your plane ticket or did you wait until you were sure?

Well, I learned, Ted Liggety told us when we talked about grunting and stuff.

Yeah.

That a lot of times the skiers will just be making the sound effects of skiing while they're going down the hill.

Yeah.

Which is, I mean, you look at these people and they're so strong and tough, but that's adorable.

That like literally they're going a hundred miles an hour and saying like,

This is like learning that when a fire truck passes you by, inside, the firefighters are in there themselves saying, wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo.

I learned that the Olympic torch, you know, you see it on TV and one runner hands it to the next runner.

They light the next runner's torch and they move on.

And it feels like this continuous thing from Athens all the way to the host city.

I learned that they take a lunch break.

That is kind of burst the bubble a little bit, doesn't it?