I'm going to be donating the total sum that the USOC is giving me for winning a gold medal, which I believe is about 25,000.
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We all feel a lot of sympathy for New York. Even having said that, I'm confident USOC will follow a process that started 2-12 years ago. They want to pick the best city that has the best plans for the best Olympic games.
We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.
The USOC is dedicated to see to it that women's softball does not miss its turn in 2012. We're hopeful and, in a humble way, hope to try and influence people to reconsider a decision that was a bad decision to eliminate a women's sport.
I'm hoping right now, with (former USOC president) Peter Ueberroth strategizing and putting everything in order, that they will try and present the case. Hopefully it will come up for a re-vote or for sure get us back in the games for 2012.
We at the USOC, along with our national governing bodies, their coaches and their athletes, have a goal in mind of being the best in the world. That doesn't necessarily come with a solid, quantifiable number.
The USOC made the decision within the last decade to simply stop being an ATM.
I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC'.
This action not only is in direct contravention of our instructions, it is in defiance of the USOC, and it constitutes clear insubordination.
I'm very pleased with the team and its performance. The (USOC) board thought that we should not be swept up with everybody's unbridled optimism.
The USOC shares responsibility for the improper conduct of the bid and organizing committees of Salt Lake City,
I found the whole thing pretty offensive They the USOC were cautioning us to take the path of least resistance and to abandon our plans of using the Net as a device to communicate with family, friends and sponsors.