11.   Back then, he never envisioned how big this event would become and how many other events would spin off the milestone race.

12.   After all, most sports events have become little more than vehicles for the friendly wager, and worse.

13.   But for the Champions Club in Houston, the event became a nightmare.

14.   But the event has become a political three-ring circus, with politicians and priests assailing the event as both sacrilegious and insulting to Russian national pride.

15.   But when one has a certain financial capability, it does provide you with the ability to take more risk, and no individual event becomes that important. . . .

16.   By Tuesday, the event became one of the more dramatic cases of non-terrorism in recent years.

17.   Each event has become one of the biggest social nights of the year.

18.   Each event will become more difficult than the previous one.

19.   Every event became epic.

20.   For Christo, each event becomes advertising for the next, bigger event.