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Speech at Ceremony Presenting State Decorations to Medal Winners at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.Part 2 March 15, 2010 The Kremlin, Moscow Беседа с чемпионами и призёрами XXI зимних Олимпийских игр 2010 года в Ванкувере 15 марта 2010 года Москва, Кремль We are analysing the Olympics results, both objective and subjective. We have already made a number of personnel decisions and they will not be the last. I will soon hold a meeting of the Presidential Council for Sport, which will likely take further decisions, above all regarding the sports federations. But the most important thing now is not even to examine what we overlooked and who is to blame though this is important too, but the main thing now is to set our sights on preparing for the next Olympics and take the necessary decisions. I hope to discuss this matter with you too today after the decorations are presented. Overall, you have excellent potential. No matter how much emotion gets vented on our team, on specific heads of federations, on sports officials, you know that we all realise what you are capable of, and we clearly have enough time to prepare for the Sochi Olympics so as to put forward our best team and put on our best performance, all the more so as this will be our Olympics. I hope that by then everyone who will be competing will be familiar with all the nuances of the facilities. As they say, at home the walls are a help too. Canadas example makes this absolutely clear, anyway. As it happens, our …