51.   Yes, women athletes have come a long way.

52.   Women athletes have always gone the distance.

53.   Women athletes should have the same opportunities as men do.

54.   Women athletes, by virtue of their success on the field or court, fail to conform to traditional standards of femininity.

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

56.   A Chinese woman athlete has been credited with one world record in the pole vault while being denied another because of a positive drug test.

57.   A former national track and field coach was Friday ordered to spend four years in jail for sexually molesting two teen-age women athletes.

58.   A new photo exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution explores the challenges facing women athletes before and since passage of a law that prohibited sex discrimination in school sports.

59.   Also, the intense media coverage of the Olympics these days reduces the likelihood that a man posing as a woman athlete would be able to slip attention.

60.   Carrard said the IOC saw a positive aspect to the Atlanta Plus campaign because it would encourage broader participation by women athletes.