1.   Figure skating also had a surprise champion in Sarah Hughes of the U.S., whom many Russians feel did not deserve the victory over Russian silver medalist Irina Slutskaya.

2.   Her mother, Nanette, had moved to Plano, so that Vanessa could train with former Russian gold medalist Valeri Liukin.

3.   An arbitration panel, meanwhile, asked for expert testimony before deciding whether the IOC was justified in stripping the two Russian medalists in the earlier doping offenses.

4.   Russian Olympic silver medalist Elena Dementieva, the second seed, also had a first-round bye.

5.   They were beaten by Russian Olympic silver medalists Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze.

6.   -- The Russian Olympic Committee expressed outrage over the expulsion from the Atlanta Games of two Russian bronze medalists who failed drug tests.

7.   The Russian Olympic Committee expressed outrage on Monday over the expulsion from the Atlanta Games of two Russian bronze medalists who failed drug tests.

8.   The Russian Olympic Committee expresses outrage over the expulsion from the Atlanta Games of two Russian bronze medalists who failed drug tests.