At a very basic level, I would like to know who my competitors will be, and I'm girding for a healthy collegial competition,

I think it will dominate our news agenda for the foreseeable future.

As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

If cell phones are the new outlet for news, we're there. If it's computer screens, we're there, ... I know there are changing habits, but they'll come around to us.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.