31.   Both women agree that while blood and sweat get you to the Games, winning medals is also about weather, officials, luck.

32.   Bonin later joined the Air Force, served in Vietnam as a tail-gunner and won several medals, including one for good conduct.

33.   A national television audience could watch Bobek and Kwiatkowski win medals here, yet learn minutes later that one of them was being sent home in favor of Lipinski.

34.   A year later, she won five medals at the World Championships and is still the only roller skater to win medals in both artistic skating and racing.

35.   A weakened European field could enable the Australian men to finally win a medal in the sport.

36.   Aamodt has won seven medals, a record for an Alpine skier, in four Olympics.

37.   Aamodt has won medals in four Olympic events, a versatility rare these days.

38.   African-Americans won medals here.

39.   After serving heroically during the first part of World War I and winning a medal for bravery, British poet Siegfried Sassoon famously experienced a change of heart.

40.   After all, this has been a difficult Olympics for Belarus, which has not won a medal.