11.   His primary sources were former gold medalists.

12.   In interviews, neither Boitano nor Petrenko complained about the judges, six of seven of whom were former Olympic medalists.

13.   It promises to be fun watching first-time Hispanic American Olympians and former medalists converging in Sidney as part of Team USA.

14.   One act in the ceremony celebrated the evolution of an Olympian when the former gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi appeared at the end of a dream sequence on stage.

15.   Others, including former Olympic medalists Frank Shorter, Joan Benoit Samuelson and Bill Rodgers, have supported him.

16.   Self-effacing and genuinely funny, the former swimming medalist was a product of the MGM studio system, which invented and nurtured stars who had no previous acting experience.

17.   Skeptics were left to infer that the former gold medalist was excluded because of his public admissions of being homosexual and having the AIDS virus.

18.   The former Olympic silver medalists Hilary Lindh and Picabo Street have been at the top of the pecking order.

19.   The opposition is of equal pedigree, with former Olympic medalists and top World Cup racers taking part in the two days of racing.

20.   When world-rated Malden middleweight Dana Rosenblatt first met former Olympic gold medalist Howard Davis, he was only moderately surprised at the greeting he got.