Pair Skating Sensation

" Now his grandfather was football sports legend commute -- but he took the ice over the football field she strapped on her first pair escaped before she just two years old. So now these two dynamic athletes are making a run together for the gold in 2010 Winter Olympics and we caught up with them training in Vancouver BC. "

" McLaughlin and Rockne Brubaker have their sights set on gold led to believe not this champion skating pair weren't too crazy about their sports starting out."

" And my mom put skates on the S and I can block like I was eighteen months I've changed my night I did my first competition. And I -- the entire time and she had to come out on yanks could she is my 'cause she had come out on me I can walk me in my program. And I was afraid of -- is gonna come right okay."

" My sister was the only one skating and we realized my mom and if you work we'll fund has. A couple of kids run around while she's trying to watch shows cable hasn't happened so she threw me -- escape classes than I -- like effort essentially. And then once I realized I was stuck on the ninth. She's actually -- get a refund for the landscape class so I was doing a class -- like they're not."

" Yeah on a started skating seriously at the age of four and it's a -- the longer after -- mother's -- he decided to focus on skating when he was fourteen. That you've finally -- up in 2006."

" We actually used the competing against each annex I and did singles for -- season and I was doing really well and has really liking it. And that he finished that his season with his other partner. And now and then his coach -- can see that that junior nationals. And then this couple weeks later I got a phone call. And we had to try out and and -- Team it. Two days in the trial -- segment on -- together and."

" It takes a lot of determination and commitment to make it it's a lot that we go through. Both mentally and physically it's not to like squats for -- sentencing think dressing. Not to like run through if they just you have to do and it's about the preparation but when -- comes together kind of feels like everything is just. Clicking into place and one or both like an hour zone and kind of can read each other's minds and now working in jail if something's -- now. And it's definitely something special to watch these two tremendous athletes on the ice."

" Sometimes people see eighteen are pairs skating. I think all looking payments during her father had there nice you know skating on the eyes and her up in the air and I mean. On lies and the girl and."

" And -- does believe that about his partner."

" That's true she's she's definitely the strength of the team and she can motivating me in. When we go to compete night and I can feel cringing when she site and she's done but she's really pushing through a program on the motivates me to do even more than. Irony was."

" And raping me is a super disciplined athlete and I admire that about and he's such a strong person mentally -- yanks. And I feel like that we we ski free -- there."

" We'll both skaters see the battle the podium within themselves. Rather with their competitors."

" Really skating your biggest competition is yourself need to go out there and perform well and if you go out there and do the best thing you can. It PM in doesn't matter there if were judged correctly it shouldn't matter what the other team does what we do we should do what you know came in those points."

" So it's a battle within yourself and you have to train like as your last day and prepare yourself as much as he can so when you get to that competition. You're comfortable. You're confident that you can go out under pressure and do --"

" They got a great story well before the Olympics -- a -- and Rockne at the US Figure Skating Championships. In January in Spokane Washington."