No other teammates can help you when you're on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I'm going to race on my own, I'm going to train on my own.

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• Shani Davis:

  Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

• Shani Davis:

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• Shani Davis:

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