31.   The athletes themselves make the Olympic Games.

32.   The typical professional athlete makes far more than do doctors or even the chief executives of major corporations.

33.   They offer a pedestal, and the young athlete makes it his home.

34.   Track and field is a professional sport, and the European circuit is where athletes make their living with prize money and appearance fees.

35.   USA Gymnastics will choose its Olympic team more subjectively than ever this summer to make sure the best athletes make it to Sydney.

36.   While many young athletes made their marks over the three days, some older ones did all right, too.

37.   While women athletes are making slow progress toward equity with men, women coaches actually have lost ground.

38.   While these elite athletes may make millions of dollars, theirs is a visceral and emotional sport that many would play for nothing.

39.   Outside tennis, there is no other sport where women athletes can make that kind of money.

40.   And when these athletes make private arrangements to join other teams, the athletes benefit but the state again loses its investment, the report said.