41.   A year later she is an Olympic champion.

42.   A two-time Olympic champion at the heptathlon, Joyner-Kersee has been bothered all season by nagging leg injuries, lack of training time and chronic asthma.

43.   A veteran of international competition, Penrith ended up against the Olympic champion, Poerto Diaz, with the bronze on the line.

44.   Adne Sondral of Norway is the defending Olympic champion, but he is trying to come back from shoulder injuries.

45.   Aleksandr Kurlovich, the two-time Olympic superheavyweight champion from Belarus, was recently suspended for two years after testing positive in Germany for a muscle-building anabolic steroid.

46.   Alexei Urmanov, the Olympic champion, settled in third place, despite his sartorial inscrutability.

47.   Aleksei Urmanov, the defending Olympic champion from Russia, continues to struggle with a groin injury.

48.   Burg also has represented two-time Olympic skating champion Katarina Witt.

49.   But as is borne out every two years, Olympic champions are made of other things.

50.   But in a way, he was raised to be the Olympic champion.