"Now it is getting better every day. Next time I know I should come three weeks earlier, here. A part of me wants to skate next week and try to be faster, but my mind overrules it."

"It is good that Mika is also fast, that they see in Finland, it's the entire team that is good, not just one man. Mika is my room mate. I surely helped him to be faster, but he is a lot of fun to be with for me, too."