41.   When the Czechs got the gold at the World Championships in Vienna last May nobody would even think of a complete failure only three months later.

42.   When the Czechs got the gold at the World Championships in Vienna in May, nobody could even think of such complete failure only three months later.

43.   England were hoping to get some gold of their own in the evening swimming finals.

44.   Torben Grael and Marcelo Ferreira also got a gold for Brazil in the Star class, while the soccer stars only managed a bronze.

45.   Pole vault champion Sergey Bubka may not have got a gold from Atlanta but he overwhelmingly won a popularity contest in the athletes village.