You have to know what’s happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what’s happening at the grass-roots level. That’s the best way to work.

The best athletes are not competing and the major athletes perform in an environment where doping controls are not what we have in the Olympic world.

Then would still come, of course, the second part. The sports movement would have to convince the governments.

The new program of the Canadian Olympic Committee 'Own the Podium,' which is supported on one hand by the government, but on the other hand the corporate world, has yielded already unbelievable results.

It's one of those unwritten rules you never want to talk about, but if holding the Games in a city would jeopardize the lives of athletes, there is always that remedy. I don't know that there is another remedy.

It's an international problem, it's not just the NHL. There is a lot of betting where there is an influence on sports results. There have been issues on betting on football (soccer), there have been issues of betting in tennis, there might be issues in other sports.

According to tradition I proclaim the Games closed and I call on the youth of the world to assemble in four years in Vancouver to celebrate the 21st Winter Games.

There was probably a little bit of lack of enthusiasm in some sports. The general public was a little bit absent in providing atmosphere. There are events where attendance has not been maximum.

They gave standing ovations to every single athlete.

This is really in the city itself. It is in the centre of the city.