What's so great about it is that it's the first time it's coming into the Olympic Games, and we have the strongest team ever going into the Olympic Games. So, we're really on a great road to winning this event. What it's going to be is that the top 10 countries—in the point system over the Grand Prix series and the international events this year—will get to compete in what's called the team event. The best woman, best man, best dance team, and best pair team from each country will compete. But the advantage of this is that you're allowed to have two substitutes in any event. So we may have our previous Olympic champions, Tessa and Scott, skating in the free program of the dance, but we might put in our second-ranked team, which is ranking very high at the international level in the short portion of the competition. Then overall it's combined at the end for the winning country. But if we have two different men competing in it, let's say one doing the short and one doing the free, both those skaters will get a medal. So, there will be more medals to our Canadians. It's a great advantage, because we probably will take advantage of those two substitutes; we are so strong in all the aspects right now, going into Sochi.
On November 26th, 2013. See this statement in context.