Who doesn’t like the Olympics? Everyone does, but who is going to pay for it?
My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.
We wanted to be World Champions before going to the Olympics.
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.
Our big hope is to get to the Olympics and win the first beach volleyball gold medal – if we can make it.
The Olympics meant everything to me. Going through them is like nothing else you will ever experience. For those few weeks, you are in another world. At that point, I couldn’t see how there could ever be anything better.
I enjoyed watching ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’ very much. Many such sports films should be made so that the upcoming generation draws inspiration from the sportspersons of our country, win medals at the Olympics and Asian Games, and make India proud.
I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.
To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it’s the best feeling in the world.
If you’re a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
When you’re a little girl, and you’re watching the Olympics, and you see this very diverse group of gymnasts out there, and – I think this team, the Final 5, will inspire so many little girls to go out there and do what they love.
I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.
Certainly, when I started bobsledding I didn’t think of being in the Olympics some day.
Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so China. It was thwarted in its attempt to hold the 2000 Olympics, which, as a result of American-led pressure, was awarded to Sydney.
I have always loved the Summer Olympics.
I think javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has a good chance of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.
There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I’m among good company.
I’m sure personal accolades are nice and you appreciate them very much. But it’s about winning Cups and winning Olympics and winning World Cups and that kind of thing.
I was turning actually 15 at the Olympics in ’76… I don’t think that one year makes a huge difference.
Facebook and Twitter have changed how people follow ski racing. In past Olympics, you couldn’t stay in touch with the fan base that followed you during the Olympics. They thought they had to wait four years to reconnect.
Gold slipped from my hand at the Rome Olympics and then from P.T. Usha at the Los Angeles Olympics. But it is my dream to see a boy or girl from India winning gold in the Olympics before my death.
There will be no one like me in the history of Olympics, someone who competed in an Olympic final with one international meet.
The Olympics have been an amazing part of Los Angeles’ history. In many ways in 1932, they put us on the map when people didn’t even know where Los Angeles was. In 1984, they were the first profitable Olympics of the modern era.
Tonya Verbeek is a rival of mine I always come up against in the semis or the final of the Olympics. We have been fighting each other for a long time, so she knew my wrestling, and I knew hers… I was thinking that the only thing I could do was somehow to deceive her, anticipate her and get in my tackles.
Playing for Australia, if they told me at 36 or 37 or whatever I’m going to be, that I can go to camp and possibly make a fifth Olympics, then why not?
I didn’t know if I was gonna make the Olympic roster, but just to be part of that journey to get to the Olympics and inevitably win a medal – even if I wasn’t a part of the roster, knowing that I had a part in it, I would have been so content.
We shouldn’t be fixated to one sport. The Olympics come once in four years, and every athlete works very hard towards that. It’s so special in one’s career.
I am now the Wimbledon champion, and I think that gives me even more confidence coming to the Olympics. And maybe in some ways, it maybe takes some pressure off the Olympics, because I already did win at Wimbledon this year.
Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.
I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slope style skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
I make fun of one of my teammates because she’s like, I’m going to retire.’ And that was after the Beijing Olympics. I don’t know. I don’t want to put all of my eggs in that basket because who knows what the future holds.
I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
It’s a great feeling to earn a place in the Olympics.
I’ve been dealing with the Special Olympics since I was young. On Sundays I used to go help monitor little soccer practices.
The Olympics have really motivated me, ever since I started skating as a little kid.
People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating.
I think it’s when I won the Youth Olympics I thought, ‘I can really get gold in London.’
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.
I look back, in an endearing way, on that time of my life when I was competing at the Olympics.
It’s super cool – I have this link to Korea, and with the Olympics, I have this opportunity to represent the U.S., Korea, and my family.
It was probably right after I made my comeback – after retiring post-2008 Olympics – when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.
I saw my baseball career skyrocketing, but there was always something in the back of my head that was missing. That was trying to make it to the Olympics.
I come from a village where traditionally girls don’t go out and play sport so I struggled a lot to come this far and to get to this position where I am at the Olympics.
I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
If you want a lot of endorsements then you’d pick the Olympics. But I’ve had a passion for the Tour since I was a kid. Let’s put it this way: it would be harder to win a stage on the Tour de France so that would mean more. I’d take the Tour win first – but I’m aiming for both.
After the Olympics I was going to a lot of functions and found that if I was eating badly my energy levels dropped.
Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard… I mean, anybody can do that. It’s the Guitar Olympics, and I can’t think of anything more pointless.
Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.
I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.
I was a crazy little seven-year-old. I used to get up an hour early to watch the big kids train. I thought, ‘I must absorb their awesomeness.’ That was my goal from when I was seven. I told my coach, ‘I’m going to the Olympics.’
I was upset about not going to the Olympics. It was a dream of mine, and I’d been working at it for a long time. But I’ve turned pro now; it’s in the past, and there’s nothing I can do about it.
Although it is disappointing that softball was not reinstated into the Olympics, we are going to continue to keep growing the sport.
My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can’t forget losing. I never will.
I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.
The Olympics, as a little kid, it was such a big goal that I created for myself, and I was able to push through and make that happen.
Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.
The Olympics brought a lot of development to Beijing, but I don’t see that there have been any changes to human rights as a result of the Olympics.
