51.   The company, more importantly, is backed by Olympic sponsor International Business Machines.

52.   The Olympic sponsor has been looking for a way into the ticket-selling industry and is in partnership with ProTix in an automated ticket-selling venture.

53.   The post office, which is no longer an Olympic sponsor, is selling T-shirts and other souvenirs with the image of Olympic stamps.

54.   The Postal Service is not an Olympic sponsor and has not paid millions of dollars to associate itself with the Games.

55.   They need a visit from a posse of Olympic sponsors, who are not planning to write any more checks until this thing is cleaned up.

56.   They make motivational speeches together for Olympic sponsors like Visa, Coca-Cola and Xerox.

57.   They are Olympic sponsors.

58.   They could only shell out yen and more yen, as the Japanese economy went skittish, to build handsome new buildings to house corporate weasels from Olympic sponsors.

59.   Whenever there was a moment of crisis outside in the snow and ice, duct tape, not an Olympic sponsor, saved the day.

60.   While it remains an Olympic sponsor, it is removing the rings from its next annual report, stationery and other material where feasible.