1.   American Lance Armstrong is a medal contender.

2.   Another gold medal contender, Anja Paerson of Sweden, won the bronze medal.

3.   Ask VanDerveer who the gold medal contenders are, and she lists about nine really strong teams.

4.   Blanton and Fonoimoana are medal contenders but Heidger and Wong are longshots.

5.   Both she and Street will be among the medal contenders in three weeks at the Olympic downhill in Hakuba, Japan.

6.   But he returned to the World Championships in April, and looks like a medal contender again.

7.   But she and Sikharulidze will be gold medal contenders in Nagano.

8.   Cammy Myler, Wendel Suckow and Duncan Kennedy are three American Olympians who were medal contenders in Albertville and Lillehammer.

9.   Coached by their brother Jean, all three are strong medal contenders.

10.   Croatia, Yugoslavia and Lithuania are other medal contenders.