His phrase was "Il va arriver en février l'année prochaine,
complètement écoeuré et démotivé et il risque de faire patate aux
olympiques s'il n'a pas de plaisir".

It's been over 20 years...

The whole paragraph reads:
"Alex doesn't have any problems with the rest of the Canadian team.
He gets along well with the anglophones. But when you're gone for
six months, there's need to live in your own milieu in order to be
comfortable and recharge the batteries. [if not] He's going to arrive
next February completely sick and unmotivated and risks bombing at the
Olympics if he is not in good spirits."

The reference to Gretzky and LaFleur is that if you had them on the
same team, you know that they would have different needs (than others).

Holland had written Harvey: "Si on fait des exceptions pour tout
le monde, le concept d'équipe disparaît." If we make exceptions for
everyone, the team concept disappears. (he goes onto add that they had
already made an exception for him; he must participate in the training
camps)

(reporter) "D'autre part, deux autres membres de l'équipe canadienne de
ski de fond, Philip Widmer et Sean Crooks, auraient demandé de quitter
Canmore afin de venir s'entraîner avec Alex Harvey au Centre national à
Québec."

On the other hand, two other members of the Canadian cross country ski
team, Widmer and Crooks, have already requested a waiver from Canmore
in order to train with Alex Harvey at the National Center in Quebec.

All this makes me wonder the more what led to the canning of Amy
Caldwell, since they had hired her for the Olympic run up and her small
group of young skiers had progressed well. Her attachment to a USST
tech no doubt rankled some heads in terms of developing larger
responsibilities, but did they really think that Zach, was going to
relegate himself to stay at home dad for the next three years.

Gene