1.   A Miami girls cross-country team is disqualified from its championship meet for wearing shorts that are too revealing.

2.   Fiona May, who unhappily finished second to her in the long jump at this world championship meet, is a British-born Italian.

3.   Having the Final Four in Texas this year is sort of like holding a championship swim meet in the Sahara Desert.

4.   He passed on two world championship meets for the same reason.

5.   Last year, he traveled with the UGA Gym Dogs to their national championship meet with the University of Michigan.

6.   The team was on its way to compete in a championship meet in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

7.   A motorcycle racer was thrown to his death when two sidecars collided at a national championships meet in suburban Sydney, police said Sunday.