Recently, Wikinews sat down with Australian standing Paralympic skiers Toby Kane, Cameron Rahles-Rahbula, and Mitchell Gourley who were in Vail, Colorado for a training camp for the start of this week's IPC Nor-Am Cup.
((Wikinews))  I'm interviewing Cameron [Rahles-Rahbula] with a hyphenated last name, Mitchell Gourley, [and] Toby Kane. And they're in Copper Mountain to compete with the IPC NorAm cup. 
((WN))  So you guys can qualify for Sochi?
((WN))  Where's the world cups?
((WN))  You guys are all skiers, right?
((WN))  None of you, when they said "we're doing snowboarding", said "I want to jump ship and do snowboarding"?
((WN))  You all love the skiing.
((WN))  (to Cameron Rahles-Rahbula): What did you do to your chin [which is taped up]?
((WN))  Crashed skiing right? 
((WN))  As somebody who knows very little about Paralympic skiing, I have a question having watched it. There seems to be three types skiiers: the ones who are in the monochairs, the ones who are blind, and the ones with amputations and the ones without arms. I've had this debate. Who's the craziest amongst you? The ones who can't see, the ones with no arms, or the ones on a mono-ski?
((WN))  Not having arms, you don't think, would be scarier?
((WN))  Can you go and tell me your classifications?
((WN))  Like L1...
((WN))  So you've all been to Paralympics before?
((WN))  And what was your favorite one? Do you have one? 
((WN))  Because you love Canadians?
((WN))  How did the ski slopes compare?
((WN))  In Australia, the big visibility Paralympics are the summer. Do you guys ever feel vaguely — I know it's the wrong question to ask — but do you ever feel vaguely cheated because you're doing neglected, you don't get the attention, the ABC's like "nah, we don't want to cover you"? 
((WN))  So you guys like the new point system they implemented?
((WN))  Evan O'Hanlon at the summer games was talking about the disparity problem between able bodied athletes and athletes with disabilities in terms of sponsorship. You guys have no visibility, is that something that you guys sit there going "we should have the same sponsorship as the great Australian skiers"? 
((WN))  Do you guys get equal treatment? Your share of the same facilities, same trainers, that sort of stuff? 
((WN))  You mentioned Australia being like a country of summer sports. What attracted you to winter sport in the first place?
((WN))  Are there any skiers that you're looking forward to racing against this week coming up? 
((WN))  So you do not care about the Chileans, or whoever, hanging around?
((WN))  I feel like we're almost coming to a close. What do you do outside of skiing? You had some life you said.
((WN))  What do you do Mitchell?
((WN))  Which university?
((WN))  You finished your VCEs then?
((WN))  And you did well?
((WN))  And Toby, what are..?
((WN))  Thank you very, very much. It was much appreciated. 
((WN))  Look forward to seeing you guys in Russia!

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Wikinews interviews Australian Paralympic skiers Toby Kane, Cameron Rahles Rahbula, and Mitchell Gourley