You never really know how bad you want something until you have it taken away from you,
Very hard for the opponent to say ‘Hey, which one is not good today,
Once a country gets to host the Games, they obviously want to do as well as possible and so there is increased investment into sports in order to produce a better medal total than they would normally get,
There are 337 legends in the making with Team Canada. I am just so excited to watch every single second of the action,
Athletics and swimming look like the key sports for Canada this time around, potentially delivering more than half of the medals,
Our best result in terms of medal tallies has been 17 gold medals. We’ll have a team of 460 in Paris, I just can’t accept that 443 athletes won’t be deemed as successful if they don’t come home with a gold medal,
As many as we can get.”
You spend the last three years looking to Paris and looking to these Games, and then all of a sudden it’s right in front of you,
I would have loved to have competed without the medal tally,
We are thrilled to finally honor these incredible athletes,
This (CAS) decision comes just in time to still be able to make the medal allocation for gold and silver possible,
We are glad that this opportunity can be offered to the athletes and teams who, unfortunately, had to wait for a very long time for their medals due to the ongoing legal case,
I would never do this for the money, I already have enough,
I would love to have more from India. Do you have one?"
This is my 11th Olympics since Atlanta (including Summer and Winter games). I love to meet people from all over the world and experience the Olympic spirit,
My friend got 7,00,000 pins from the USA Olympic Committee in 1996. He told me to come and start trading and I have been trading pins ever since,
Unlike Americans, I don't do it for the money, I just love the exercise,