In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

In my country (Belgium), if you sit beside the phone long enough, it will ring and you will be invited to play rugby for Belgium!

Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.

I declare the 20th Winter Games closed. I call upon the youth of the world to assemble four years from now in Vancouver, to celebrate the 21st Olympic Winter Games.

The journey of the flame is what brings the Games closer to society and allows society to take part in the Games.

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

Everything is in place to have a peaceful Games.