71.   The Ryder Cup has grown into a huge event, and, unlike tennis players, golfers do not generally decline to represent their country.

72.   The Soviet bloc, which boycotted the LA Games, can send more swimmers representing individual countries.

73.   Their envoys represent countries at the United Nations in the same ways ambassadors in Washington are accredited to the government of the United States.

74.   These Winter Olympics will be the second in which NHL players will represent their countries.

75.   These players out there are professionals, they not only represent themselves, but they represent the countries they play for.

76.   They represented their country with class and won their spot on the medal stand with heart and sweat.

77.   They signed on to represent their country, not the NBA Players Association.

78.   Those countries will be represented instead by their ambassadors to Indonesia.

79.   Thus far, nine yacht clubs representing seven countries have submitted entries.