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I think it’s going to be great, like the World Cup, it'll be great to throw a good party and mix with the people from all over. – Braulio Ferreira	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You never want to say anybody is a definite shoo-in but Simone's performance in the past have been spectacular, and I don't anticipate her faltering. – Kerri Strug	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We can do an appeal in 24 hours, so anything is possible, it's a first step. – Matthieu Reeb	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a first step, there's now potentially a way to get through. – Matthieu Reeb	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) said it was the most efficient sport compared with how much money they put in it. – Tim Cuddihy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When I am at the shooting range I am the coach and mentor, at the village I am the mother. – Nino Salukvadze	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that. – Seth Winter	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We had a budget way below what you would expect for an event of this type, but we are pretty used to working this way. – Daniela Thomas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Athens was about the classics, Beijing was grandiose and muscular, London was smart, and ours - ours will be cool. – Fernando Meirelles	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I feel this happened because the system is broken, we developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organization or whether there was government interference ... but somehow they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics. – Martha Karoyli	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In the qualifying event in Rio...they simply didn't have the girls as the only experienced member was Ponor but she can’t do three routines on every apparatus, a lot of people think this is the death of Romanian gymnastics but I don’t think that's true. It’s just an unfortunate situation for now. – Nadia Comaneci	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There will be a big hole in my stomach (on Sunday) when I won’t see my team, it’s like someone important is missing from a party because you can’t imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania. – Nadia Comaneci	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When one member of the team got injured, it started a chain of bad luck as the others were left really shaken and then they just panicked, ...One girl got injured, then one girl fell off bars and then you couldn't stop the mistakes. – Nadia Comaneci	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I know what it felt like to be at the bottom and what it feels like to be at the top of the game as well. – Carmelo Anthony	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He's changing a few things, i think tactically he's going to change a few things. – De Bruyne	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As a customer just looking for tickets, you're really hamstrung by CoSport. – Matthew Rose	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It looks like a good old boys' network. – James Reese	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are very physical team and technically they were strong and they are strong throughout, there were moments when we broke them down but we couldn't score. – Erin Nayler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Tournaments ask us all the time to play their events no matter what tour it's on all around the world, and you have to prepare for that, every year it's getting tougher and tougher because of the tour schedule. When they made that call... that the Olympics were going to happen, I started preparing for it. I don't know about anybody else, but I started preparing for it. – Bubba Watson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
My thoughts are play good here. – Bubba Watson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I've felt for the past several months that I am in the best shape I have ever been in, i think trials was just a very different experience for me and I think I wasn't really prepared for the emotional aspect of it...coming in this year I think I felt the pressure a lot more than I ever have before. – Missy Franklin	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Korean team that’s on the field right now is probably one of the fun teams as far as hanging out on the field, when you have two heavy hitters on the field there is a lot of respect. I really hope it comes down to us facing Korea again, I really do. – Brady Ellison	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Anybody that has followed archery will tell you that that was the match to watch and that was actually the Olympic gold medal right there and we made a statement there, i feel like, despite taking silver, we knew that, in our hearts, we had won. – Jake Kaminski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I am so happy and so thrilled and I my have lost some of my composure, this was an epoch-making decision today. – Tokyo Games chief Yoshiro Mori	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I think it’s going to be great, like the World Cup, it'll be great to throw a good party and mix with the people from all over.

– Braulio Ferreira

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You never want to say anybody is a definite shoo-in but Simone's performance in the past have been spectacular, and I don't anticipate her faltering.

– Kerri Strug

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We can do an appeal in 24 hours, so anything is possible, it's a first step.

– Matthieu Reeb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a first step, there's now potentially a way to get through.

– Matthieu Reeb

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) said it was the most efficient sport compared with how much money they put in it.

– Tim Cuddihy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I am at the shooting range I am the coach and mentor, at the village I am the mother.

– Nino Salukvadze

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that.

– Seth Winter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We had a budget way below what you would expect for an event of this type, but we are pretty used to working this way.

– Daniela Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Athens was about the classics, Beijing was grandiose and muscular, London was smart, and ours - ours will be cool.

– Fernando Meirelles

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I feel this happened because the system is broken, we developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organization or whether there was government interference ... but somehow they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

– Martha Karoyli

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In the qualifying event in Rio...they simply didn't have the girls as the only experienced member was Ponor but she can’t do three routines on every apparatus, a lot of people think this is the death of Romanian gymnastics but I don’t think that's true. It’s just an unfortunate situation for now.

– Nadia Comaneci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There will be a big hole in my stomach (on Sunday) when I won’t see my team, it’s like someone important is missing from a party because you can’t imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

– Nadia Comaneci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When one member of the team got injured, it started a chain of bad luck as the others were left really shaken and then they just panicked, ...One girl got injured, then one girl fell off bars and then you couldn't stop the mistakes.

– Nadia Comaneci

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I know what it felt like to be at the bottom and what it feels like to be at the top of the game as well.

– Carmelo Anthony

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's changing a few things, i think tactically he's going to change a few things.

– De Bruyne

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As a customer just looking for tickets, you're really hamstrung by CoSport.

– Matthew Rose

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It looks like a good old boys' network.

– James Reese

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They are very physical team and technically they were strong and they are strong throughout, there were moments when we broke them down but we couldn't score.

– Erin Nayler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Tournaments ask us all the time to play their events no matter what tour it's on all around the world, and you have to prepare for that, every year it's getting tougher and tougher because of the tour schedule. When they made that call... that the Olympics were going to happen, I started preparing for it. I don't know about anybody else, but I started preparing for it.

– Bubba Watson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

My thoughts are play good here.

– Bubba Watson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I've felt for the past several months that I am in the best shape I have ever been in, i think trials was just a very different experience for me and I think I wasn't really prepared for the emotional aspect of it...coming in this year I think I felt the pressure a lot more than I ever have before.

– Missy Franklin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Korean team that’s on the field right now is probably one of the fun teams as far as hanging out on the field, when you have two heavy hitters on the field there is a lot of respect. I really hope it comes down to us facing Korea again, I really do.

– Brady Ellison

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anybody that has followed archery will tell you that that was the match to watch and that was actually the Olympic gold medal right there and we made a statement there, i feel like, despite taking silver, we knew that, in our hearts, we had won.

– Jake Kaminski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am so happy and so thrilled and I my have lost some of my composure, this was an epoch-making decision today.

– Tokyo Games chief Yoshiro Mori

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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