Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table. |
For us the International Olympic Committee rules are clear. What Mayer did was illegal. |
He's a free person. We have no moral obligation to keep him away from here. As far as we're concerned, he's a tourist. |
I fully think and believe that they are completely, as we call it, clean. |
I see this press conference as a concession to us because normally negative results are not commented on. |
If they suddenly leave like that they don't seem to be very interested in taking part. |
If we are cocking up this case and are not clarifying the facts completely, this will end badly for Austria. |
If we sit back and don't do anything, and let it go on, of course the bid will be harmed. |
It was a general lashing out by someone who has had a lot of pressure over the past days ... when you are nervous you say a lot of things you don't mean to. |
People are thinking about punishing us, even about banning us. |
People are thinking about punishing us, even about banning us. We want to avoid that. The damage of a ban would be impossible to make good again. |
The IOC is feeling as if Austria is taking the piss out of them. After the doping affair (at the 2002 Winter Olympics) in Salt Lake City, the same thing happened again, with the same people and the same equipment. |
There is great need for action, the pressure from the IOC is enormous. |
There's a storm brewing at the IOC. Whether the doping tests are positive or negative doesn't matter. There was equipment found that was clearly not allowed, including equipment for blood transfusions. |
These were the best Games ever for us, we mustn't forget that, and I want to congratulate our athletes for that. |