21 Quotes by Max Gartner

Our strategic plan calls for Canada to be a world leading alpine racing country by 2010. With significantly increased human, technical and financial resources, the intent is to have all our athletes be the best prepared to race ever at an Olympic Games.

With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.

We still have medal potential but we've lost two of them now. Anyway, we need to move on. I am confident in the coaching staff. We all need to be very calm.

We're trying to simulate a lot what the load will be on snow. His biggest asset is his amazing feel on snow. That's why he gets such good speed. But if you have pain, you just tighten up a little and that could hurt that feeling. ... You want to go into your biggest event of the year 100 per cent healthy, that's for sure.

With better support you get results and with one or two results it starts to snowball.

Every time he puts weight on the front of the ski boot, it hurts.

Erik has been skiing the last two or three days. We're still going day by day. He has been on the snow every day, free skiing and doing giant slalom. We'll have to see. It is looking positive.

This is a devastating blow to our team. Allison has been preparing for this Olympics really hard. I know she is going to be devastated. I feel really bad for her. This was her chance to shine.

It just shows that with our program we are contenders for a lot of events right now. In almost every event we have a challenger. A couple of hundredths of a second here and there and we could have walked away with a bunch of medals.