1.   At the end of the day, two exhausted teams piled into cars for the drive back home from the skirmish site in Edinburgh.

2.   At the edge of the field, under the trees, camouflage netting sheltered exhausted teams awaiting the next competition.

3.   The main rescue operation was suspended Sunday to give the exhausted team time to recover.

4.   An exhausted French team squeezed into the world table tennis championship quarter-finals here Friday minus their injured world champion Jean-Philippe Gatien.

5.   But as his exhausted team came off the field he admitted the heat had played a major role.