"Today, it was the first time that I felt a bit better. Yesterday it was just better with a small step forward, and then it's uncertain what you can do, so you get a bit tense about it. My condition has always been good, but I could not do many starts. These high speeds that you need in a weekend like this, you cannot train if you are not feeling well, and on antibiotics. You need to train that, to finetune your coordination. With that absent this week, I'm really satisfied with this first day, rank 4. It was only a pity that the 500 didn't go well. My opening was 10.6, that was good, the crossover was super, but in the last turn I had some misstrokes and lost speed. If it's 0.2 second, it's a lot, you need it on the 1000m to get ahead."

"In my race with Simionato, I thought I had to start in the outer lane. Simionato came to me, to say 'I think you're in the wrong lane'. I looked at my armband and saw that she was right, but I seriously wasn't there with my head."

"Tomorrow I'll try to focus on my own race, and see if it is possible to climb. That Wolf is leading is not a surprise. She is so gigantic good at the 500m. Anni is so far ahead of me that it is hard to overtake her, but climbing to the podium should be possible for me tomorrow, I think. But it's sprinting: a little mistake can make a large difference. For now, I'm just happy that I skated this fast today."