Britteny Cox Interview

Our Moguls preview continues as we talk to Britteny Cox, who finished this past season ranked #1 in the World. Britteny tells us about growing up on skis, competing in her first Olympics at the age of 15, what it's like competing as a Winter athlete in Australia, the thrill of competing in Dual Moguls, and of course meeting the legendary Dale Begg-Smith and whether or not she has been to his private island!

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COLIN HILDING: We are back with more Off The Podium, and we're still talking the Winter Olympics now. As you've been hearing our last few episodes, we're gearing up now for the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang, and we've had a few opportunities here. I want to do a bit of a preview episode, and then last week, if you listen, we talked to Andy Notti, which began our series on moguls as the first preview sport we're gonna look at here. And we're gonna continue that, as Andy Notti represented the Canadian side of this. This week, we're gonna talk about Britteny Cox, who is representing the Australian side of the mogul sport, which is my favourite sport, the reason why I'm doing this interview and not Ben, who usually talks to the Australians. And again, if you have heard the last two episodes, and you've probably already heard about Britteny Cox, and she's a skier who, over the last couple seasons, has slowly risen a little bit more and more each year, and then really came out of nowhere this year and ended up finishing the season as the number one ranked mogul skier in the entire world. Something that here in Canada got a lot of attention, which we do talk to her about, how the differences are in Australia with the media attention. We get to find out just how young of an age Britteny got into this sport. And believe it or not, we actually interrupted her training to do this interview, so we caught her about halfway through the day into the training as well. And really has been a spectacular season, not just for Britteny, but for Australia as well. So we get some of her opinions on what's going on in Australia right now regarding winter sports versus summer sports. And as well, if you've listened to our other interviews, at least with the Canadian athletes, and you listened to the one with Andy Nottie last week, we do get to give Britteny the opportunity to answer the I am Canadian questions, which in this case will be I am Australian questions. So we get the fun questionnaire on the end there. And so here it is, our second in our series of Moguls Preview Interviews with Australian Freestyle Skier, Britteny Cox. And we're thrilled today to be joined on Off The Podium by the number one mogul skier in the world right now, the reigning world champion, and somebody that has pretty much knocked all the Canadians off the podium. So that's the only reason that our show title has any relevance today, because we pretty much have to rename it on the podium now. We're joined today by Britteny Cox, who of course is from Australia, I'm not. This is Breaking With Tradition, Ben who usually covers the Australian interviews. He's unavailable, but this is my favourite sport. So I had to be here to talk about this one. And particularly just with everything that's gone down this past year, I have to ask just right off the bat, can you please tell us like, what is in the drinking water of the Australian freestyle moguls team? What have you done? You've destroyed my country. I don't know, so much has happened in the last year. Can you maybe just catch us up on anything from last season to this season that's changed?

BRITTENY COX: Well, thanks very much for having me on. And I'm very excited to hear that mogul skiing is your favourite sport. That's awesome. But yeah, I think we had a really exciting year for our whole entire mogul team in Australia this year. And I had my personal best season. I think Brody had his best season. Matt had some really strong results as well. So it was really exciting for us. And I think that's probably the question that I've been asked the most throughout the season. And since I've been home is like, what happened? What's clicked? And I just kind of said to everyone like, well, I don't really think anything's clicked necessarily. I think it's just probably an accumulation of training over a number of years that's kind of finally starting to pay off for me. I think that I did very similar training the year before. I did all the same training camps. Just I think the type of skiing that I was trying to do, it takes time and it takes a lot of work over a number of years. And I think that volume and consistency is starting to pay off now.

COLIN HILDING: Well, why don't you go back and just, I guess, let us know how you got into the sport. Like at what age did you start skiing and at what age did you become interested in mogul skiing?

BRITTENY COX: Well, I grew up in a small ski resort in Australia called Falls Creek, which is, well, I guess it's not small for Australia. We have five major ski resorts in Australia and Falls Creek is one of the major ones. So my family ran a family business in accommodation up over Falls Creek. So I was born in a winter environment and pretty much on skis as soon as I could walk. So I guess it was only natural for me to be out there skiing every day after school and on the weekends and you know, I did a variety of different winter sports. I did alpine racing, cross country, had a go at snowboarding. But mogul skiing was kind of the thing that I would do after school, chasing my older brother around the mountain. We'd kind of go and build a jump off in the trees or ski in a line of bumps on one of the runs. And I'd always be chasing him around. And I think that's where my passion for mogul skiing really started. And then once I started competing for the school, I realised that I loved competition. And I could see myself taking it further in the years to come. And that's sort of really where it started for me.

COLIN HILDING: I think that's the thing that I found most interesting in doing this show and all the different Olympians we talked to is that for me as a viewer, I sort of watch this assuming everybody's like me watching the Olympics religiously thinking, one day I wanna be Usain Bolt or something like that. You know, one day I wanna be McKell Kingsbury. But in actuality, I mean, the majority of the athletes that are competing in the Olympics, you just got into it kind of for fun. But was there any point, you know, as a child or growing up where you were watching the Olympics and you thought that could be me one day?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, I think that's, you're right, that's true for a lot of mogul skis. It starts off as a family sport and skiing is definitely very much a family sport. So I definitely enjoyed skiing with my family from a really young age, but I remember competing in my first ever mogul skiing event when I was eight years old. It was a school competition in Australia. We run the inter-schools program where you compete in all skiing disciplines for your school. And I won the mogul skiing event when I was eight and I was just like, yes, this is such a great feeling. And I loved the competition. And I think a year before that would have been the Salt Lake Olympics, when Alyssa Campland won gold in aerial skiing. That was a really exciting moment for winter sports in Australia. And that was definitely very inspiring for me. And to see her be successful in winter sports coming from, as an Australian, where we're typically seen as a summer sport nation. I think that really opened up my eyes to where the sport could potentially take me in sort of an elite environment.

COLIN HILDING: That's one of the things that we kind of joked about back during Rio was that for Canadians, we don't really have a lot to brag about in the summer Olympics from year to year. And then Ben and Jared, the Australian coach we had there, saying, well, we're not going to have a lot to say when it comes to the winter Olympics. But I mean, that seems to be completely changing this year. There's a lot of excitement, both with moguls and even aerials going into Pyeongchang next year. How are you noticing, are the reactions different compared to a year or two ago that you're getting in Australia? Or what type of attention or media attention is there now behind this, with the amount of success you've had?

BRITTENY COX: I guess probably media attention hasn't really started to pick up and focus on the Olympics just yet. I think I'm hoping that kind of comes in the coming months as we get closer towards Korea. But yeah, that's right. In Australia, we are seen as kind of a summer sport nation. When you think of athletes, Australian athletes, you think of surfing and swimming. But the reality is we are getting strong results in winter sports now. And we just had, as an Australian team, we just had our best ever season for winter sports results across the board, not just in freestyle, but in snowboarding and also figure skating. So I think the reaction and the vibes amongst the Australian team is really good at the moment. It's really positive and exciting. And I think that's just a really good indication of the pathways and the programs that we have here. They're working and also sort of looking forward. It's very motivating for us as athletes and inspiring us to work hard over the next couple of months.

COLIN HILDING: It's kind of funny just to hear that there isn't as much media attention because just from my own experience watching, the Moguls gets on our, I guess you could call it our national network. It gets coverage probably six or seven weeks out of the year, like two hours every single Saturday. And you've probably had more media attention here in Canada from what it sounds, and you've had even in Australia. Even just in looking up, trying to find some other interviews over the last week or so. I mean, I'm finding stuff from our network here, CBC, not so much anything else. Have you found that there's a lot of attention in Canada or in America or other countries in the world?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, it's quite interesting being on the World Cup circuit and seeing how the different nations respond to mogul skiing and how much they know about the sport. I think in general across Australia, a lot of people aren't too familiar with mogul skiing. They don't really understand when they watch it, how it's judged or that kind of thing. So I guess that makes it a little bit more difficult for them to appreciate the sport. But I think we're starting to grow a little bit more traction now across all the winter sports. And it was interesting being on tour this year to a few new locations that I hadn't been to before. For example, Japan, and I was there, and the Japanese just love mogul skiing. They froth out over it. It was really, really exciting to be competing there. And it made me really happy to see people love the sport that I love so much and kind of share that excitement. And I really hope that sort of Australia can kind of pick up on that and learn a little bit more about the sport.

COLIN HILDING: And of course, you mentioned different locations you've been able to go through at the World Cup. And one of those this year was Pyeongchang, where you're almost definitely going to be next year, the way it's looking right now. So what was it like competing there? Is this, I guess, a bit of a preview of next year's Olympics? Did you have any expectations going in? Is it sort of a work in progress at this point? Well, what were you able to take apart from visiting there this past year?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, definitely a work in progress. It was actually my first ever time competing in Asia this year. So Korea was that first Asian event in the Asian League of the Tour, and it was just great to check out the environment, check out the country. I've never really experienced that kind of culture before, and I really, really enjoyed it. It was really cool hanging out down in the city in Seoul, and then getting up to check out the venues. I was really impressed with how far along they'd come in their preparations for the Olympics. I remember being in Sochi a couple of years before, and we got up there for the test event, and we're thinking, wow, this all has to be ready in about 12 months' time. But it seemed like in Korea, they had a really good hold on it, and I was impressed with the course and the facilities, and yeah, just really happy with my skiing in that event, but definitely a work in progress. I just took that event as another World Cup, just gaining information for next year, and trying to have a good performance on that day, which just gave me some feedback for what I need to work on in the coming months, and yeah, definitely a lot of work to go, I think.

COLIN HILDING: You said earlier about how it's not necessarily one thing's clicking this year with the team, but it's been developing over time, and it's interesting because you're only, what, 22, 23 years old?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, 22. I turned 23 in September this year.

COLIN HILDING: So I mean, at 22 years old, you're the number one skier in the world right now. But at the same time, you're probably, I guess, on the way to, what, your third Olympics, because you debuted all the way back in Vancouver, which it's crazy to think at that age to be in the Olympics. What was that like? I guess, first of all, how much notice do you really get before you're gonna go there? I mean, when we were talking to Andy Notti, she was saying that going to the Olympics is really just about a few weeks before you get there, before it's even finalized. And what was your reaction when you realised you are gonna go there?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah. Vancouver was absolutely crazy. It's like, I can't even believe it, thinking back now, almost eight years ago. But I went off after I competed in my first World Cup, went off to Europe to compete on Europa Cup, and with no idea that I'd qualified for the Games, and as the weeks progressed after that, I'd competed in two Europa Cups, and then one day after competition, my coach sat me down and let me know that I'd actually qualified for the Games, and I was just mind blown. And then a couple of days later, I was flying out to Vancouver to compete in my first Olympics as a 15 year old. So it was kind of thrown in the deep end, but definitely a very valuable experience, and I was able to take what I learnt at those Games throughout the next couple of years leading into Russia.

COLIN HILDING: I mean, in those Games, again, I would assume at that age, without really having the expectation that you would make it or anything like that, I mean, whatever position you finish in, it's probably just the experience that was the biggest thrill over anything.

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, definitely. Those first Games for me just came at me so far. So I really just kind of treated it as just another event, just the next week of competition after a few weeks on the Europa Cup circuit, which I think worked out really well for me because I was just able to focus on my skiing and kind of let go of any distractions. And when I was there, I was able to see some of those top women, how they trained and competed and sort of see what was required of me over the coming years to take it to that next level. And just an incredible experience and definitely ignited the fire for the next four years going into Russia.

COLIN HILDING: And when you were in Sochi, I mean, again, there's a lot of coverage here in Canada, but I think most of that has come since Sochi just because of how well we perform there. But I don't remember a lot of talk about the potential for you to medal when you were in Sochi, and then you ended up finishing, what was it, in fourth or fifth place?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, I had an interesting season that year. I was kind of up and down and on all over the place with my skiing. I think the first World Cup of the season, I had a good qualification result and then ended up finishing just off the podium in fourth. And then I was kind of in that sort of teetering on super final, not making super final for the rest of the season leading up to the games. So I went into the games just kind of trying to figure out my skiing. And I was still trying to figure it out on training on course in Russia. And I think finally on the night, I started to figure out that course and just had that competitive fire rise up within me and pulled out a result, a fifth place result.

COLIN HILDING: And just the advancement from one game to the other is insane too that you can go from 23rd or 24th up to fifth place in a single games. And then going into this year, I guess everything also can be unpredictable. Throughout this season, you pretty much dominated every single World Cup event. But there were a few where all of a sudden, somebody just comes out of nowhere and you're left off the podium. I mean, what are some of the factors that make this such an unpredictable sport? Because I even look at what happened in the World Championships on the men's side and the skier who won, I can't remember, pronounce his name, but he wasn't really anywhere to be seen before this happened. Something like that can happen on any event. I remember one event earlier this year, I can't remember the location where the winds were just so strong. And you're seeing the first few skiers and they're going all out and they're all wiping out. And then the last few who come down, I mean, you guys are like as cautious as can be. Like how many different factors and variables do you have to be on guard for?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, that's right. That's the thing with mogul skiing is there's so much that can go right, so much that can go wrong. And there are so many variables within what you do as a skier and then in the conditions and the course and that kind of thing. So really in mogul skiing, you gotta be on your guard 24 seven and know that some wild card can come from the back. And there are always, at the moment, there are so many competitive men and women that can be on the podium on any given day. So yeah, I think with mogul skiing, what we saw this year was different courses maybe suited different skiers better and worse at different events. And yeah, it was very exciting to see Akuma on top of the podium at World Championships. He was just skiing phenomenally. And that's the kind of thing that can happen in mogul skiing is some guys might be skiing really well all season, but in competition, perhaps they've made a few mistakes here and there that kind of puts them further back in the pack. So you don't, some people might not have kind of noticed them or had them in their mind for picked as a potential podium athlete. And then all of a sudden they pull it together in the run and at the time that it counts and they're up there. So I think that's really exciting for spectators in our sport and something that's, yeah, it's definitely a great aspect of the sport that I love.

COLIN HILDING: Another thing that's always fascinated me is the fact with moguls that you have really two types of competition. You have like the solo where you're just going down your own and then you have dual moguls, which is the most exciting thing in the whole world to watch because you're basically doing the exact same thing. You're just side by side with somebody. Are there small differences when you compete in that? Because I'm watching this thinking, you have to be considering what the other person is doing, but it's not even necessarily about how fast you're getting down or anything like that. Do you even focus on the skier next to you in dual moguls?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, so single moguls is kind of the, I guess the most serious one if you want to label the two different events, because it is the Olympic event. But we do have dual moguls as well in the World Cup circuit and World Championships. So dual moguls is super exciting. And I think if you'll ask any athlete on the tour, they'll say that they love competing duels. It's so much fun. It's kind of the one way you get pushed by the person next to you. And I guess your only goal in each run that you do is to ski a better run, a faster run, than that person next to you and just get through the rounds. And sometimes that's crazy because it pushes you to the very edge and to the very limits, which is awesome for spectators because they can watch that and they love the excitement of duels. And it's also good for people who've kind of not watched the sport before or aren't so familiar with it because you've got two skiers side by side. So it's much easier for them to compare the two skiers and they can kind of get in there too and go, I think that one won that time, or I think the red course won that time. And yeah, super exciting. And yeah, every athlete loves competing, Jules.

COLIN HILDING: Now, we're gonna move on to some final questions, but before we do that, there's one thing I have to ask because my co-host on the show, Ben, who's in the middle of recording a radio show right now, I think he's actually interviewing another Olympian, if I'm correct on that, but he did send in a listener question, listener question or host question, whatever it is, or a series of them, which all has to do with, I guess, the hero of Australian mogul skiing, who I only found out last year was actually Canadian, Dale Begg-Smith. So I don't know how much familiarity you have with Dale Begg-Smith, but he was basically just asking if you had an opinion on how awesome Dale Begg-Smith is.

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, for us as Australian mogul skiers, we are so grateful for what Dale has done for freestyle in Australia. Basically, myself, Matt and Brody, we've had the pathway paved for us since we were young athletes. We watched Dale at his peak around 2006 when we were in primary school, and we got to see him training on our home course back in Australia, it was a dream, and see him there and then win the gold medal in 2006. It was super inspiring for us, and that really helped us and helped freestyle within Australia. We received more funding, our programs became a lot more solidified, and for us that was good because we could see that it was possible in our country to have success in the sport. Fast forward a few more years, I got to compete in Vancouver as Dale's teammate, and got to know him a little bit more and see that he was helpful for me. I was there, I didn't know anyone, and this whole world stage was a new environment, and he was a great kind of support there, and then the same kind of thing in Sochi. And I guess for us, we've just looked up to his skiing, and then it was great this year having Dale come and visit us in Deir Valley for the World Cup. He came and supported and watched us, gave us a few pointers, and we were so grateful for that, and we're just lucky to have had him pave the way for us.

COLIN HILDING: Ben also did, and this is a reference that's gonna go over my head, but he also wanted to know if you ever got invited to Dale's private island. Is this a thing there?

BRITTENY COX: Does he have a private island?

COLIN HILDING: Apparently, he asked about it. An internet spam business and a private island. So I've just heard all these stories about him over the last couple of months about how he's almost like this legend in Australia. You never see him, you never hear from him, but everybody knows he's there.

BRITTENY COX: Well, that's the first I've heard of the private island, but I'm actually, one of my hobbies is surfing as an Australian. So I'm definitely waiting for an invite now.

COLIN HILDING: One other question I have to ask is, you told me off there that you're literally in the middle of training right now. So how much time do you have to spend before you're prepping for the next season? And what does the training consist of? This is something that's always fascinated in me is how people prepare for sports like this, where you can't necessarily ski year round.

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, so our season finished early March at the World Championships in Spain, and then we had about a month of recovery, rest and break, getting ready for the year ahead. We're back in the gym now, prepping our bodies for the first training camp of the year, which is strength and conditioning. And we're in the gym working on that sort of baseline strength and fitness that will set us up for out on snow and water ramp training camps for the rest of the year. And it's certainly gonna be a busy year with training camps. We've got a lot of work we need to do in the gym, water ramping, and then of course on snow as well. So really looking forward to those training camps ahead and seeing what I can get out of my skiing over the coming months.

COLIN HILDING: You know, to everybody listening at home, that basically sounds like summer camp to the rest of us. I mean, I'm sure it's grueling, but it sounds like a blast to train for this.

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I love training. I love turning up with my team and working on snow and jumping. And even in the gym, it's definitely a grind, but you know that that hard work is gonna pay off once you're on snow and working on those more technical skills. You gotta have this kind of background training in there to get you through the days on the hill. So you have that in mind every workout that you're doing in here that it's gonna pay off for you once you're doing the fun training.

COLIN HILDING: We do have to go into a set of questions here, which I will tell you, you're gonna have the privilege of being the first Australian to answer these questions. Cause up until now, it's been a Canadian thing. Just to give you a bit of a background, during the Rio Olympics, they gave a lot of our athletes this questionnaire that they filled out like in handwriting. You're not gonna do it in handwriting cause that doesn't translate well on a podcast. But, there's some fun questions in here. There's some Olympic theme questions, some training questions, a little bit of everything. So, you're gonna be the first Australian to answer this. So I know that this is probably the biggest honour next to-

BRITTENY COX: The pressure is on.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, this is your biggest honour next to winning the world championship this past year. So, let's start off with, my favourite Olympic moment is?

BRITTENY COX: My favourite Olympic moment would probably be, oh, there's too many. Probably my earliest Olympic moment, and that was watching Alyssa Campland win gold in Salt Lake City in 2002.

COLIN HILDING: So you were always sort of behind the winter games?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, definitely. I mean, I grew up in a ski resort, so when the winter games were on, I was just fixed to the TV.

COLIN HILDING: So how about this one? If I could choose any Olympic host city, it would be?

BRITTENY COX: Any Olympic host city for winter or summer?

COLIN HILDING: Either.

BRITTENY COX: Okay, for winter, I'd probably choose Salt Lake City, and then if it was summer, Melbourne, my hometown.

COLIN HILDING: Obvious choice there. In my spare time, I most like to?

BRITTENY COX: My spare time, I most like to be at the beach and go surfing with my family and my dog.

COLIN HILDING: And Dale Begg-Smith, and here's Private Island.

BRITTENY COX: Still waiting for that invite.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah. The weirdest instruction a coach ever gave me was?

BRITTENY COX: The weirdest instruction a coach ever gave me would probably be to do less.

COLIN HILDING: Did it work?

BRITTENY COX: Did it pay off? Probably. They're usually right.

COLIN HILDING: My favourite workout is, I wonder if this is gonna be something that you're doing on or off the air today.

BRITTENY COX: My favourite workout, my favourite workout, probably just on snow training, really jumping, but if we're talking about the gym, I really enjoy running.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, that's my favourite. Not just because it's-

BRITTENY COX: Especially if the sprints are on the beach. Beach sprints are my favourite.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, you mean running on the sand?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, running on the sand.

COLIN HILDING: Oh, I haven't even tried that. That sounds a little bit too difficult for me, so I'm out. Oh, my favourite sandwich is?

BRITTENY COX: My favourite sandwich would be... Oh, cheese and Vegemite.

COLIN HILDING: See, that's something I've never tried, but I've heard such good things and also such bad things about Vegemite from Australians. It seems to divide a lot of people.

BRITTENY COX: Vegemite is the one spread that every Australian loves and every non-Australian absolutely hates. But we grow up with it, so for us, it's something that you're born into, I think.

COLIN HILDING: This next one, it requires drawing, which again doesn't translate very well over a podcast, but the question was draw a picture of a Canadian animal. That doesn't really apply to you. I was just wondering, do you know any Canadian animals? Do you have a favourite Canadian animal?

BRITTENY COX: Well, we train in Whistler every May, and we always see a lot of black bears. So I get really excited when I see black bears. We have no bears in Australia, so probably, yeah, probably the bears.

COLIN HILDING: All right. I've also learned when my co-host Ben was here in Canada this past winter that a koala is not a bear, because I would have said my favourite Australian animal is a koala bear, and I keep getting corrected on that. It's not a bear. Yeah, just a koala. Yeah. If I could have any superpower, it would be?

BRITTENY COX: Any superpower, it would be teleportation, because as an Australian, we live about a 15-hour flight from just about anywhere, so for us, we do a lot of travelling throughout the years. If I could teleport to all my training camps and competitions, that would be pretty helpful.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, skip the long flights. The best candy in the world is?

BRITTENY COX: I'm not much of a candy person. In Australia, we don't call it candy. We call them lollies, but I'd probably say licorice.

COLIN HILDING: As a kid, my favourite sports team was?

BRITTENY COX: As a kid, my favourite sports team was probably the Australian Olympic team.

COLIN HILDING: Yeah, that would be the correct answer. Also, the only Australian team I'm familiar with, so thank you for answering that.

BRITTENY COX: I also support our national sport is AFL, and I support the Brisbane Lions, so I've always been a Brisbane Lions supporter.

COLIN HILDING: My brother is huge into Australian football, like to the point where he just paid an obscene amount of money for an app that gives him access to every game every single week. So I'll have to ask him if that's one of the teams he roots for.

BRITTENY COX: They're doing well so far this year.

COLIN HILDING: As a kid? Oh, no, we just asked that one, so let's skip it. My favourite sports movie is?

BRITTENY COX: My favourite sports movie... Actually, it's not a... I mean, it's a documentary film, but I watched View From A Blue Moon last year, which is John John Florence's surfing movie. I really enjoyed that.

COLIN HILDING: I haven't even heard of that one. Is it like a professional surfer?

BRITTENY COX: Yeah, he was last year's world surfing title holder, world champion, so...

COLIN HILDING: If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be?

BRITTENY COX: If I could live anywhere in the world, it would be Australia, and probably specifically the surf coast in Victoria.

COLIN HILDING: And we'll use this as a final question here, and I don't quite understand why they phrase it this way. It just says, when I was little, I always thought. So something you thought when you were a kid, that you were like, wow, that was dumb, or maybe something that you dreamt of when you were a kid, anything?

BRITTENY COX: Probably when I was little, I probably always thought I'm cold, because I was always skiing.

COLIN HILDING: And you're like, I'm in Australia, it's not supposed to be this way.

BRITTENY COX: That's right.

COLIN HILDING: Well, seriously.

BRITTENY COX: I always thought about skiing.

COLIN HILDING: I just wanted to say when you mentioned earlier about being a kid and watching Dale Begg-Smith and all the pride and everything, just as a final question, has it even sunk into you yet that a year from now people are going to be watching you, regardless of how the Olympics go, that you're going to have people watching you where they're like, wow, we have an Australian Olympian that's the top in the world and a front runner and representing this entire country. Has that sunk into you yet?

BRITTENY COX: I guess I haven't really thought about it like that, but I definitely hope that people are inspired and basically I just want to lead by example and hope that I can represent Australia the best that I can and set a good example, especially for young athletes and we just brought athletes in Australia and I'm super stoked if they can learn from me and draw some inspiration from me as well.

COLIN HILDING: Well, as I said earlier, Moguls is my favourite sport and you'd be hard pressed to get me not to root for a Canadian, but I found myself at the beginning of the season being like, how is this Australian girl beating the Deferlo points? Why is Andy Nonney losing her? And at the end of the season, I'm watching with my wife and she's like, oh, that's too bad the Canadians aren't winning. I'm like, yeah, but you know what? How can you beat Britteny Cox? I mean, you're the best in the world for a reason. It's been such a great season. It's such a pleasure to watch you.

BRITTENY COX: Thank you. Thanks very much.

COLIN HILDING: And thanks for being on the show. And we're hoping the next time you're on here, maybe a year from now, you'll be coming on talking about your experiences of winning in Pyeongchang.

BRITTENY COX: Oh, let's hope so. Thanks very much for having me.

COLIN HILDING: Honestly, a massive thanks to Britteny Cox and as well Andi Naude last week for doing these interviews. I'm such a huge fan of this sport. Just being able to get some of these athletes on the show was fantastic. And we still have more coming. We don't have an exact date on when the next episode is gonna go out or exactly what it is, but we would like to continue on with these preview sports. And I'm not sure if we're gonna have any more Moguls ones coming up, but other sports that we can expect at some point in the future, maybe we're gonna be doing some speed skating coming up, I have a couple ideas on that. Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and we'll do some hockey previews, but there'll be lots more to come on here. Lots of plans we have, and if there's a certain sport that you're interested in hearing about on here, as we're getting ready for the Winter Olympics next year, maybe if it's one of the newer sports, then just let us know and we'd be happy to cover it or reach out and try to get some guests on here for some of those sports. Thank you everybody out there who's been listening so far and continue to subscribe to us on iTunes and Stitcher, I believe we're not on there yet, we should be soon. As well, like us on Facebook, comment on Facebook, send us an email, send us a follow on Twitter, whatever.