1.   He could have competed before, Browns fans said, but he made bad business deals.

2.   It will be the only meet in which the U.S. Olympic team competes before the Olympic Games in Atlanta this summer.

3.   She still attempted to compete before hyperextending her knee and re-retiring.

4.   The five will sit in the Heisman Room on Saturday evening, surrounded by portraits of winners who competed before their parents were born.

5.   Though she will compete before a home crowd, as the most highly visible Aborigine, Freeman feels added pressure to represent her people.

6.   Unlike Cameroon, which had competed before, Senegal not only was playing its first Cup match, but knocking heads with its former colonial masters.

7.   You had to evaluate people who competed before radio with people who have Web sites.

8.   She has not been training at all but hopes to compete before the end of the year, her agent, Keith Karlsson, said Tuesday.

9.   She took another blood test Sunday morning and passed, allowing her to compete before the results of the earlier test were announced.

10.   She took another blood test Sunday morning and passed, allowing her to compete before the results of the earlier test was announced.