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...

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.