Max Gartner Quotations

Whenever racers ski a course for the first time, the strategy is to focus on the line and to take the first run as an opportunity to evaluate how the mountain reacts.

She will go home to have surgery very shortly.

She has been skiing tremendously this year. I feel bad for her but I am sure she will be great next year again.

I wish we could bring home some hardware, but you have to look deeper than that. You can have one medal and the rest be a disaster and people would say you're doing good. But I like where we're headed.

I expect she is going to leave Italy pretty soon. You usually need six months after the surgery to fully recover.

He has a boot top contusion and is day-to-day.

We take our own. ... We need to have it firsthand.

He could do a lot more with his talent, that's for sure. We've already seen that if he's dedicated and committed he could be the ultimate dominant athlete out there.

Jeff has been a very hard-working athlete and has been instrumental in rebuilding the men's speed team over the years. We will miss his leadership and experience in guiding the new wave of racers.

Our strategic plan calls for Canada to be a world leading alpine racing country by 2010. With significantly increased human, technical and financial resources, the intent is to have all our athletes be the best prepared to race ever at an Olympic Games.

With the exception of women's slalom, I think we have a medal shot in every event.

We still have medal potential but we've lost two of them now. Anyway, we need to move on. I am confident in the coaching staff. We all need to be very calm.

We're trying to simulate a lot what the load will be on snow. His biggest asset is his amazing feel on snow. That's why he gets such good speed. But if you have pain, you just tighten up a little and that could hurt that feeling. ... You want to go into your biggest event of the year 100 per cent healthy, that's for sure.

With better support you get results and with one or two results it starts to snowball.

Every time he puts weight on the front of the ski boot, it hurts.

Erik has been skiing the last two or three days. We're still going day by day. He has been on the snow every day, free skiing and doing giant slalom. We'll have to see. It is looking positive.

This is a devastating blow to our team. Allison has been preparing for this Olympics really hard. I know she is going to be devastated. I feel really bad for her. This was her chance to shine.

It just shows that with our program we are contenders for a lot of events right now. In almost every event we have a challenger. A couple of hundredths of a second here and there and we could have walked away with a bunch of medals.

I have to look deeper than medals. I am quite happy with a lot of the people and how they performed. I think we've got a lot of things going for us. We have a young, talented team. The future is going to be bright. We are going to be looking good, unless something weird happens.

All three have exceptional attitudes and work ethic. They need more concrete results. They need to compete more against our national athletes.

The goal is to win one medal. I think we could win more.