The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Of course, not everything is finished yet and the IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games. The remaining test events will give the games...

They were games of heart, of warmth, of smiles and generosity. It was Italy at its best.

If you take the quality of the sites, the quality of the sports, you couldn’t do really any better than that. For the atmosphere, there was magic here and there, but not everywhere.

Winning tastes good.

Now it will take a couple of weeks to decide if it is worth it to bid again.

The IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Games.

Olympic transformation nearly complete, ingredients for great Games in place

It is not an obligation but a joy

To win you have to risk loss.

We had a very, very difficult seven years. The end result we would have been happy with. It went very well. I was relieved after the first four or five days.

These were the Games of the heart, of warmth and of a smile.