11.   No secret that athletes have become increasingly self-centered, detached, overly concerned with getting paid.

12.   Nowadays, athletes become free agents, sell their services to the highest bidder, move on.

13.   Particular athletes become poster boys for success, and any voids on their resumes are obscured by the brilliance of other achievements.

14.   Reporter Bert Roughton Jr. shows little knowledge of how young athletes become Olympians.

15.   Rightly or wrongly, athletes have become role models.

16.   Robert Lipsyte reports on the The Drake Group, which wants to ensure that athletes become students who play sports.

17.   Some elite wheelchair athletes have become professionals, attracting sponsorships and living on their purses.

18.   So maybe in other parts of the country, athletes become legends.

19.   The athletes have become symbols of a nation whose victory is occurring within their hearts.

20.   The athlete often becomes impatient and tries to rush it.