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It has been a long year already. It's something I have to deal with. It has nothing to do with (the Olympics).

Any time you have a chance to go out there and play for your country, it's a big deal. You always want to go out there and represent the USA the best you can, especially since baseball is out of the Olympics and this is basically our Olympics.

We still have a long way to go. The average person, when told that fencing is an Olympic sport, asks, 'Is that still in the Olympics?' It's been in every Olympics there has ever been in the modern age. There's fencing in every summer Olympics and it never gets televised. There's no fencer who is a household name. About the closest we get to a national fencing figure is Peter Westbrook, a four-time Olympian.

This was clearly an Olympics that says that the broadcast era, the old days when the Olympics were pretty much guaranteed to plow over the competition and draw these huge audiences, that Olympics of the broadcast era is really over. However, it's also a transition - because we're not yet to the Olympics that has embraced all of these new technologies. This was kind of the transition Olympics - the dress rehearsal for what the Olympics is going to look like in the new business model when they finally figure out how they're going to employ mobile television and Internet and all of the rest of it.

It definitely feels great to be back in the final. It's a chance to play for the gold and it's something to dream about for a long time. [The '94 Olympics] was so long ago, I can't remember much about it. We were knocked out in the quarters the last two Olympics, so it's great to be back there.

I'll try to run in an Olympics again as long as I continue with my career, rather than set a new goal for each year.

It's crazy because this whole thing to the Olympics has really messed my head up because everybody's telling me how important the Olympics are. And I was like, 'whatever, just do well and go to the Olympics.' Just that having that kind of mellow attitude made me land everything. It was really soothing. I just can't wait for the Olympics now. It's been an awesome season.

[The Oilers and Smyth have a one-year deal on the table that is worth slightly more than his qualifying offer of $2.698 million, so there's no chance the veteran left-winger will miss the start of camp.] I'll be there because we've got the one-year deal in place, ... If we can't agree on the long-term, I'll take my qualifying offer and be ready to go. It's one year or whatever we settle on.

It seems to me that it only becomes a big deal when someone tests positive at the Olympics and is stripped of a medal. Then it becomes a big deal. For pro sports, I just think most fans don't care about how the athletes get there in the first place and just want to see them on the field.

It's better it happened now than at the Olympics, which we train for our whole lives. You can say I got three medals at the Olympics, but it's been a really tough year for me and this just tops it off.

This year there was no Winter Olympics to precede it, so there was a little bit of loss in the hype in the anticipation of the Summer Olympics.

Stacey Lynn Koerner

That's great. These guys, they've been bugging me all year. It's all in good clean fun. Just as long as they are pulling for me in the Olympics.

Mathieu Schneider

He's been a powerhouse for years. Last year he qualified for Junior Olympics, and he wasn't even old enough to go. He's been awesome all season long.

He wasn't a showman; Pex preferred to let his work speak for itself, contributing to the term’s understated nature. It's nice to check that box. I've been saying for a long time that if I make it to the Olympics, I'll be at the combine a week after. But it really came together today, which is a great feeling. It's probably a better feeling than knowing I'm going to the Olympics.

Jeremy Bloom (1982-)

Most of us had a nice break (during the Olympics), so we're all still pretty focused. It was certainly nice to be home for a long period of time, but it's not a big deal. We usually adjust pretty easy.

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