The judge decided not to name a substitute president. With 48 hours to go to the congress, and considering the situation, it wasn’t worth it to name someone for this ceremony.

I have to say this is not pleasant but, for the moment, it only involves Lance Armstrong and France.

It’s not wise to condemn someone who hasn’t tested positive in a legal sense.

We’re going to be looking further into this affair,

It’s another heavy blow to cycling so we have to take it all the way. And I also want to know who exactly it was who gave out this information.

Hong Kong had a very good plan of post-Olympic legacy value,

It’s my first time here to see the equestrian venues for the 2008 Olympics. I’m very happy with what I saw. I think it’s a good start.

substantial concerns about the impact of this matter on the integrity of the overall drug testing regime of the Olympic movement, and in particular the questions it raises over the trustworthiness of some of the...

The Games are green, green and full green.

We have approved them. That means we like them, otherwise we wouldn’t have done that.

We were very impressed by the proposed venues for the equestrian competitions in Hong Kong and the preparatory work there.

It is wonderful to see how the Olympic spirit is being spread beyond Beijing into other areas in China.

The normal sanction – if you can prove that someone has tested positive – is a two-year ban, but what we have here cannot be used as proof.

I think it’s clear I don’t like the man.