142 Quotes by Jacques Rogge

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.