1.   Five Busch racers also received bad news when rain wiped out their chances of qualifying without their even getting on the track.

2.   Both got up to speed within a matter of laps on the tight and difficult Indy oval, then qualified without a hitch.

3.   Cameroon must defeat Germany if it hopes to qualify without relying on the result of the Saudi Arabia-Ireland match.

4.   In eighth place was Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic, who qualified without trying his quintuple-twisting triple flip, a jump nobody else attempts.

5.   In its last two games, it drew with Kuwait and lost to Qatar, losing a chance to qualify without the playoff against Japan.

6.   Last week, former Masters titlist Fuzzy Zoeller withdrew from qualifying without giving a reason but gave the R. and A. plenty of notice.

7.   Most of the top rowers qualified without much trouble.

8.   This year they qualified without fanfare, runners-up to Spain.

9.   Hussein explained that medical students cannot qualify without doing such war zone postings.