31.   He said Athens Mayor Dimitris Avramopoulos took the decision in the belief it would make for a more spectacular entrance for the athletes to come into an empty arena.

32.   Howson said the other athletes testing positive came from baseball, soccer, cycling, motorcycling, water skiing and ice hockey.

33.   In recent interviews with several German publications, Eicke said that athletes have been coming to him with tales of widespread doping in German sports.

34.   Kuwait had threatened to walk out if Iraqi athletes came.

35.   Many former East German athletes have come forward to speak about systematic doping in many sports in their former homeland.

36.   No big athletes were coming and its world-class status as an entertainment event had diminished.

37.   Several ex-East German athletes have already come forward with health complaints, she said, although she declined to release names.

38.   Then came the athletes, starting with Cambodia and ending with the host Thai team.

39.   Australian athletes have come up with a plan to try to save the bedevilled indoor athletic series.

40.   Several other Chinese athletes also came up positive at the games.