21.   A Chinese sports agency said Friday it has agreed to pay provincial track and field teams cash if their athletes win medals.

22.   All five drug-positive athletes had won medals.

23.   Although the athlete has won her appeal, the case is unlikely to end there.

24.   American athletes won two golds in junior events and two in senior competition.

25.   And for the first time, black athletes have won Olympic medals.

26.   Athletes must win five of the seven Golden League races of the year excluding the final in Melbourne, Australia.

27.   Former Soviet athletes have won five of the first nine medals.

28.   French athletes won with swords and bicycles.

29.   He said the athletes won their medals for swimming, cycling and the decathlon.

30.   In a demonstration of their growing clout in the Olympic movement, athletes won the right Monday to choose the head of their commission in the IOC.