Heinz Jungwirth Quotations

If they suddenly leave like that they don't seem to be very interested in taking part.

If we sit back and don't do anything, and let it go on, of course the bid will be harmed.

For us the International Olympic Committee rules are clear. What Mayer did was illegal.

He's a free person. We have no moral obligation to keep him away from here. As far as we're concerned, he's a tourist.

If we are cocking up this case and are not clarifying the facts completely, this will end badly for Austria.

There is great need for action, the pressure from the IOC is enormous.

We don't suspect any person in particular. But there must have been someone who handled these materials.

We had to wait for the test results for five days and it's natural that the wildest rumors appeared.

We have protested against the way the controls were done. I personally spoke to the president (Jacques Rogge) of the IOC this morning.

We're here in order to protect the athletes. We raised an objection with the IOC and will proceed against this with all means at our disposal.

I see this press conference as a concession to us because normally negative results are not commented on.

These were the best Games ever for us, we mustn't forget that, and I want to congratulate our athletes for that.

We are very happy that at the end of these days, it turns out there is no doping.

Austria has great relations with the IOC. We don't want to put anything under the table.

People are thinking about punishing us, even about banning us.

People are thinking about punishing us, even about banning us. We want to avoid that. The damage of a ban would be impossible to make good again.

I fully think and believe that they are completely, as we call it, clean.

The IOC is feeling as if Austria is taking the piss out of them. After the doping affair (at the 2002 Winter Olympics) in Salt Lake City, the same thing happened again, with the same people and the same equipment.

It was a general lashing out by someone who has had a lot of pressure over the past days ... when you are nervous you say a lot of things you don't mean to.

There's a storm brewing at the IOC. Whether the doping tests are positive or negative doesn't matter. There was equipment found that was clearly not allowed, including equipment for blood transfusions.