1.   And meet promoters would have no incentive to give an obscure sprinter a shot at top international competition.

2.   International meet promoters, desperate to have Lewis in their events, pressured governing bodies.

3.   Last year, the same European meet promoters who had once courted Kingdom refused to book him for races.

4.   Meet promoters and competitors alike greet him with a wary eye.

5.   This is why meet promoters love him.

6.   While meet promoters have had trouble attracting the pocketbooks of Corporate America, the athletes themselves are finding a receptive audience along Madison Avenue as the Summer Games approach.

7.   Because of the incorrect diagnosis, Jacobs and the Berlin meet promoter came to a financial settlement.

8.   Only a year ago, meet promoters shunned him because his times were relatively poor.

9.   Alexander Lubimov, spokesman for the meet promoters World Class, declined to say how much the Briton would be paid for his first appearance in Russia.