For a long time the IOC liked the idea of money but they didn't like the thought of working for it. |
Governments have reached an important milestone. But it is also a crossroads. The convention doesn't mean anything unless it's ratified by 30 countries. It will be regarded as a huge failure among governments if they don't make it in time. |
has not really thought it through. |
He's free to say what he wants. But it's irresponsible. It's just wrong ... the reaction he's had from the sport and from parents shows that. |
Here's this guy who tested positive for steroids and the NHL is happy to have him play. Welcome to the NHL. |
I am speculating that it is clear in leaked grand jury testimony that he acknowledged he did it. |
I bring to the job an experience that no other candidate has. I've done everything in the 23 years that I've been here. I've seen the good parts and the bad parts. |
I don't know whether their defense is credible or not, but it doesn't matter. It's the stuff in your system that counts. That's all that matters as far as the Olympic result is concerned. |
I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, |
I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying, 'Well, I guess we do know how the name got public - we made it possible. |
I hope they're getting the message. (The raid) should be one of the deterrents. |
I regard this as early days. We're not taking the gold standard as a stake set in the ground and that is all you have to do. |
I therefore have no reason to believe that the analysis of the samples was not regular. Yes, the laboratory found EPO traces in many samples. It may be that EPO traces disappear gradually from urine, but it cannot be that no EPO should be in them and then it emerges as if from nowhere. |
I think everybody is entitled to an opinion and when you're young you have the constitutional right to be as stupid as you want. |
I think everybody would have a gut feeling that the odds of this happening in this size of a population are about one in three million. So we do suspect something going on there. |