Jim Scherr
Jim Scherr
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We think there's an opportunity for a performance that could come close to or match what the athletes achieved in Salt Lake City. We hope they'll be able to achieve at that level. We'll tell you after the games how we did.
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We know the Beijing Games will be like no other; we have a whole new platform and stage. For much of the population of China, our athletes will be the only representation they have of our society.
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We don't know if that's true or not, and we won't know until after the games are over. But we do know, on paper, this is our most accomplished team.
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I'm disappointed in ourselves and our own expectations that we came into the games with, which may not have been realistic.
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So overall these Games have seen both mismanaged expectations and some unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances.
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I don't think there will be disruption of the Games because of this, but you never know, so it is something we monitor very carefully.
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The host country of one Games to the next Games generally drops about 40 percent from one games to the next. So if you can do the math, from 34, we would be expected to be a little bit lower.
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We have serious concerns over the actions of this particular N.G.B..
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There are a couple areas where we thought we'd perform better but we didn't. We just have to go back and work a little harder for Vancouver.
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We had 34 podium finishes in Salt Lake City and 75 top-eight finishes. We expect this team to do very well. We're not going to predict how many medals we might win in these games.
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This team has taken a bit of a hit because of their comportment.
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This team has taken a bit of a hit because of the expectations of some high-profile athletes. It was a case of mismanaged expectations and some unforeseen circumstances. But we'd hope a few incidents would not overshadow what we view as a great performance by our team.
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This team has a taken a hit in terms of its comportment here in Italy because of a couple of incidents involving some high-profile athletes.
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TV ratings, particularly in the U.S. market, are critical to the long-term cause of the movement.