Mikaela Shiffrin saying she is grateful to be back in Olympic form and to be on the slopes of Cortina. It's an area that she is familiar with and she knows how to succeed there. Shiffrin says that she is feeling pretty excited to be competing. She's been in 4 different Olympic Games, all wildly different, but she remains wide-eyed about competing in front of the world. I feel so much gratitude to be here. It's like excitement. There's adrenaline. I'm certainly nervous at times, but Really *** lot of *** sense of gratitude and I'm just, I'm excited to take that with me for the entire time that we're here. She was also asked about much of the spotlight being on Lindsey Vonn following her ACL injury and quick return to action. Shiffrin says she'll be in Vonn's cheering section. I'm so excited to watch. I think we all are. I mentioned tenacity just now, her tenacity and grit and what she's showing up with this Olympics and staying true to her own values, that's just. That's straight up beautiful. Shiffrin says she knows there are things she needs to work on. One is not backing off in corners where other skiers are going harder, and those skiers usually win. Also, she says she wants to be on that outside ski. It was *** factor in her crash, and she says if you're on the outside, you're in the driver's seat at the Milan Cortina Games. I'm Jason Newton.