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We heard from the International OlympicCommittee that 1.2 million people — athletes, press and operation personnel —will be coming to the Pyeongchang Olympics, that number ishuge. So, we thought a clinic to address sexual violence, sexual harassment andprostitution was necessary. Many people supported the idea. – Kwon Eun-jin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We heard from the International OlympicCommittee that 1.2 million people — athletes, press and operation personnel —will be coming to the PyeongChang Olympics, that number ishuge. So, we thought a clinic to address sexual violence, sexual harassment andprostitution was necessary. Many people supported the idea. – Kwon Eun-jin	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If the Olympics provide an opening for conversations to occur, that's better for the people of South Korea and also the people of North Korea, we want to see their athletes participate and be part of the community of nations. – Steve Goldstein	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie. – Elizabeth Smart	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I mean I’ll go and swim from time to time just to kind of decompress and get away, but I don’t miss the grind of that. I mean, it’s probably easier than doing what I’m doing now, i would say training for the Olympics is easier than living a normal life where I’m outside of the pool most of the time. – Michael Phelps	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.). Stay tuned!. – United States	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
My own view is that it will be very interesting to see what happens, and it might actually take the proper move to sub-two-hours on a bit, but I think we may have to take the result with a pinch of salt.Bedford (left) competes in the 10,000m at the 1972 Munich Olympics{. – David Bedford	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Skating is going to be part of the 2020 Olympics so it's something for us to aim for and it would be great to have their support. I feel we are the last piece of the puzzle provided we get the support needed. – Jomi Marcus-Bello	Found on CNN 7 years ago
We’ve had this problem for how many Olympics now? It seems every time it’s something that comes up, it’s sad. That’s really what it is. It’s really sad that we can’t control it, that somebody who is in charge cannot control this. – Michael Phelps	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I didn't think I was going to recover and that it would be difficult to make the Olympics, but I made it and in the best possible way. – Mireia Belmonte	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
It has a slightly different feel and it should have, it is the Olympics, the beauty of this event is if you are third you are actually going to be leaving with something. If you are third at a major you get world ranking points and a nice check -- but I would definitely trade a third at a major with a bronze medal. – Henrik Stenson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
If you see somebody with Masters gear, they'll ask you about it because you can only buy it there, so if they see this band, they'll say OK, you've probably been to Rio and the Olympics. – Nelson Imana	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The world needs to know – I am here watching this spectacle from a slum right next to where they are opening the Olympics, and my life has not improved at all, it is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage. – Jose Carmo	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We need help, and it seems bizarre to beg when the city I live in is hosting the Olympics, i only ask that we get more help with health, security and education. – Denilson Lucio Souza	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Olympics is a convenient excuse, historically, on the ad industry, the impact was pretty limited. The money associated with advertising, not related to the Olympics, still showed up. – Brian Wieser	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I feel this happened because the system is broken, we developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organization or whether there was government interference ... but somehow they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics. – Martha Karoyli	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Tournaments ask us all the time to play their events no matter what tour it's on all around the world, and you have to prepare for that, every year it's getting tougher and tougher because of the tour schedule. When they made that call... that the Olympics were going to happen, I started preparing for it. I don't know about anybody else, but I started preparing for it. – Bubba Watson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Despite all the talk and all the media, I think Brazil is going to pull off a great Olympics, it's going to be fun and the city is going to have a good time. – Farhad Panahi	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Here it's totally different conditions, different venue, different country, so I'll try and treat it like any other tournament and prepare as best I can, i remember when I was in Beijing( in 2008), the whole atmosphere surrounding an Olympics is different because you're around loads of the best athletes in the world. – The Scot	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is probably going to be the best volleyball Olympics ever with this country so volleyball crazy - it will be an amazing atmosphere, brazil have a lot of advantages here. They have a lot of players with experience of winning Olympics, players and staff, and now they get to be host. – Karch Kiraly as head coach	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The idea of an Olympic legacy in terms of diminishing air pollution is Utopian. It is unimaginable that a few BRT routes will substantially change the quality of the air, for the Brazilians remaining in Rio after the Olympics have come and gone, there is no clean air legacy. – Paulo Saldiva	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Since November of last year, we have already been showing projections and scientific studies that show this won't be an issue during the Olympics, since two weeks before the Games, the number of cases were almost non-existent. In the city, cases are very rare and for us it is an issue that we have more than overcome. – Daniel Soranz	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The Olympics are right in front of us. I want to use them as a chance to build a new Tokyo for beyond 2020. – Yuriko Koike	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
I've got two weeks off before the Olympics and then there are two LPGA tournaments in Canada, it's a busy time and I'm looking forward to getting some rest and making sure I'm fully ready to get back to playing again. – Brooke Henderson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

We heard from the International OlympicCommittee that 1.2 million people — athletes, press and operation personnel —will be coming to the Pyeongchang Olympics, that number ishuge. So, we thought a clinic to address sexual violence, sexual harassment andprostitution was necessary. Many people supported the idea.

– Kwon Eun-jin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We heard from the International OlympicCommittee that 1.2 million people — athletes, press and operation personnel —will be coming to the PyeongChang Olympics, that number ishuge. So, we thought a clinic to address sexual violence, sexual harassment andprostitution was necessary. Many people supported the idea.

– Kwon Eun-jin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If the Olympics provide an opening for conversations to occur, that's better for the people of South Korea and also the people of North Korea, we want to see their athletes participate and be part of the community of nations.

– Steve Goldstein

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Elizabeth Smart was held captive by Brian David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, for nine months, and the case captivated the nation just months after the 2002 Winter Olympics took place in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Smart was raped, tethered to trees by steel cables and left without food and water for days at a time. Elizabeth Smart recalled what Elizabeth Smart said to Brian David Mitchell on the night Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. There finally came a point where I remember stopping Brian David Mitchell and just saying, ‘ If you're just going to rape and kill me, please do it here,' because in my mind I was thinking I want my parents to know what happened to me, I wanted them to find me even if it was just my body, brian David Mitchell had this smile and it was just, it was bone chilling … Brian David Mitchell said, ‘ I'm not going to rape and murder you. Yet,' Elizabeth Smart added. Wanda Barzee was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2010, and Brian David Mitchell is serving two life terms. Elizabeth Smart will talk about how Elizabeth Smart moved past the harrowing incident 15 years later, according to E ! News. The special will air on Nov. 12 and 13 before the Lifetime original movie.

– Elizabeth Smart

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I mean I’ll go and swim from time to time just to kind of decompress and get away, but I don’t miss the grind of that. I mean, it’s probably easier than doing what I’m doing now, i would say training for the Olympics is easier than living a normal life where I’m outside of the pool most of the time.

– Michael Phelps

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Working hard to get the Olympics for the United States (L.A.). Stay tuned!.

– United States

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

My own view is that it will be very interesting to see what happens, and it might actually take the proper move to sub-two-hours on a bit, but I think we may have to take the result with a pinch of salt.Bedford (left) competes in the 10,000m at the 1972 Munich Olympics{.

– David Bedford

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Skating is going to be part of the 2020 Olympics so it's something for us to aim for and it would be great to have their support. I feel we are the last piece of the puzzle provided we get the support needed.

– Jomi Marcus-Bello

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We’ve had this problem for how many Olympics now? It seems every time it’s something that comes up, it’s sad. That’s really what it is. It’s really sad that we can’t control it, that somebody who is in charge cannot control this.

– Michael Phelps

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I didn't think I was going to recover and that it would be difficult to make the Olympics, but I made it and in the best possible way.

– Mireia Belmonte

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It has a slightly different feel and it should have, it is the Olympics, the beauty of this event is if you are third you are actually going to be leaving with something. If you are third at a major you get world ranking points and a nice check -- but I would definitely trade a third at a major with a bronze medal.

– Henrik Stenson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

If you see somebody with Masters gear, they'll ask you about it because you can only buy it there, so if they see this band, they'll say OK, you've probably been to Rio and the Olympics.

– Nelson Imana

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The world needs to know – I am here watching this spectacle from a slum right next to where they are opening the Olympics, and my life has not improved at all, it is frustrating to be so close to this spectacle and yet so far away, living in a place were we have no security, not even sewage.

– Jose Carmo

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We need help, and it seems bizarre to beg when the city I live in is hosting the Olympics, i only ask that we get more help with health, security and education.

– Denilson Lucio Souza

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Olympics is a convenient excuse, historically, on the ad industry, the impact was pretty limited. The money associated with advertising, not related to the Olympics, still showed up.

– Brian Wieser

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I feel this happened because the system is broken, we developed a system in Romania that was very successfully continued for a number of years but I don't know if it was because of some conflict in the organization or whether there was government interference ... but somehow they have forgotten the importance of raising gymnasts to be ready for every Olympics.

– Martha Karoyli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Tournaments ask us all the time to play their events no matter what tour it's on all around the world, and you have to prepare for that, every year it's getting tougher and tougher because of the tour schedule. When they made that call... that the Olympics were going to happen, I started preparing for it. I don't know about anybody else, but I started preparing for it.

– Bubba Watson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Despite all the talk and all the media, I think Brazil is going to pull off a great Olympics, it's going to be fun and the city is going to have a good time.

– Farhad Panahi

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Here it's totally different conditions, different venue, different country, so I'll try and treat it like any other tournament and prepare as best I can, i remember when I was in Beijing( in 2008), the whole atmosphere surrounding an Olympics is different because you're around loads of the best athletes in the world.

– The Scot

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is probably going to be the best volleyball Olympics ever with this country so volleyball crazy - it will be an amazing atmosphere, brazil have a lot of advantages here. They have a lot of players with experience of winning Olympics, players and staff, and now they get to be host.

– Karch Kiraly as head coach

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The idea of an Olympic legacy in terms of diminishing air pollution is Utopian. It is unimaginable that a few BRT routes will substantially change the quality of the air, for the Brazilians remaining in Rio after the Olympics have come and gone, there is no clean air legacy.

– Paulo Saldiva

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Since November of last year, we have already been showing projections and scientific studies that show this won't be an issue during the Olympics, since two weeks before the Games, the number of cases were almost non-existent. In the city, cases are very rare and for us it is an issue that we have more than overcome.

– Daniel Soranz

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Olympics are right in front of us. I want to use them as a chance to build a new Tokyo for beyond 2020.

– Yuriko Koike

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I've got two weeks off before the Olympics and then there are two LPGA tournaments in Canada, it's a busy time and I'm looking forward to getting some rest and making sure I'm fully ready to get back to playing again.

– Brooke Henderson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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