1.   Two athletes were banned from competing after failing drug tests.

2.   Carrillo, who rode with a broken left leg, declined to compete yesterday after failing to place during the first four go-rounds.

3.   Grief and anger compete after the death of Jessica Dubroff in the crash of the plane the seven-year-old girl was piloting cross country.

4.   He cannot compete after this year because contestants are ineligible after the eighth grade.

5.   Not that Batten expects to stop competing even after going back to school.

6.   The bonds are intended to let Peco refinance its nuclear debt and other costs to lower rates for its customers and allow it to compete after deregulation.

7.   The three compete after practice to see who can elude the media.

8.   Under state law, Peco can refinance obligations that would lose value or would make it too expensive for Peco to compete after deregulation.

9.   A return to the NBA by Elliott would be unprecedented, as no professional athlete has come back to compete after a kidney transplant.

10.   Dogan declined to compete after Damir Zakhartdinov, from Uzbekistan, secured his place in quarterfinals by defeating Moldovan Octavian Cuciuc.