JEREMY BLOOM: I do. It was pretty much do or die for me in France. It takes a lot of pressure off just to know I had a spot here and I didn't have to go back to selection but I'm pretty much looking as if I haven't qualified for the Olympics because I really haven't and I just want to take the confidence and momentum from France and use it here.

Q2: Did the Colorado Buffaloes get hosed on the BCS series?

JEREMY BLOOM: Oh, for sure. It couldn't be any worse for Colorado to have Nebraska ahead of them. Any other team would have been at least okay. But it is pretty unfortunate that you beat a team by as much as we beat them and they're in the Rose Bowl.

Q3: Is your sport really as dangerous as it looks to novices? Is that part of the appeal?

JEREMY BLOOM: In skiing, spectators love big falls. Obviously we don't like to be the one taking the fall, but it makes very good competition.

Q4: Compare the emotions of winning a state high school football championship with those of winning a World Cup medal?

JEREMY BLOOM: Actually, the way our high school won the state championship is kind of like a fairy tale. We won in the last play of the game. Growing up with all your friends playing football through elementary school and middle school, talking about we're going to win the state championship some day and then actually doing it in our home stadium in the last second of play. Placing third over there (Tignes) was a huge difference. It's a totally different feeling in skiing because its very individual; in football when you win something like that you have 100 other people that just want through the exact same thing to celebrate with. In skiing, everyone is happy for you but you're obviously the most happy for yourself. Over in Tignes, I had a lot of pressure on myself because if I didn't get a top 12 over there I had to go back to watching events I've been competing in for six years and I'm not a huge fan of, so it was just really important for me to do well over there and I'm just fortunate enough to come back here to Steamboat and continue skiing.

Q5: Jeremy, did you need to get some sort of waiver from the NCAA?

JEREMY BLOOM: Right now I'm definitely eligible for next year. As far as we know right now as soon as I enroll in college I can have no contracts.

Q6: Did you ever have a football coach who said couldn't you play basketball in winter, or have a ski coach ask if you ever tried soccer or cross-country running instead of football?

JEREMY BLOOM: No, it was more like people just telling me I was stupid for playing football. I made the U.S. Ski Team when I was 15 and a freshman in high school and I was the smallest one out there as a freshman playing football. Some people didn't understand it but I just had a dream and I didn't want to let anyone get in my way.

Q7: Jeremy, in France, when you got the bronze medal, did you think this really was the right decision? Or with Colorado doing so well in football did you have any doubts?

JEREMY BLOOM: Right from the start I've never looked back. I've had some thoughts of regret, but they pass really quickly. I am just really happy for the football team. I was there all summer and I know how hard they worked and I couldn't be happier for them.

Q8: Are you still trying to go to the NCAA to be able to keep your sponsorships while playing football? Where is that situation?

JEREMY BLOOM: It's in the middle of the NCAA, which is not a good place to be. Right now we are trying to set up a fund through the U.S. Ski Team so while I'm playing football I can still compete in some competitions and still keep ski contracts, but I actually won't make the money until I graduate from college.

Q9: How did you get started in skiing? And where did it fit in with your other sports?

JEREMY BLOOM: I lived in Loveland, Colo., which is two hours from a ski resort and I was the youngest in my family and I was pretty much brought up skiing on snow when I could walk. In my family it was just like a tradition every weekend, we had a place in Dillon and we'd just go up and have fun and ski all year. My brother and sister did gates and my first gates competition I was five years old, I think. I didn't get the concept of going around the gates so I just went straight and I was disqualified. I think ever since then I was in freestyle.

Q10: What should spectators look for in moguls?

JEREMY BLOOM: Look for the air, it's the best thing about our sport in freestyle and for those who don't know what it is, it's a bunch of moguls on a 250m course with 2 airs and it's judged 50% turns, 25% on air and 25% on speed.

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