1.   Only the top seven gymnasts make the Olympic team.

2.   Peters says his pupil is among the top gymnasts because she enjoys competing.

3.   The top eight gymnasts on each apparatus from the team competition, with a maximum of two per country, qualify.

4.   The top rhythmic gymnast expected to compete is Eugenia Pavlina of Belarus.

5.   To make the Olympic team, Chow must finish among the top seven gymnasts at the Trials, scheduled for the last week of June in Boston.

6.   Wu, a top Chinese gymnast, was in Japan studying Japanese and looking for a part-time job when Mitsuo Tsukahara hired him.

7.   Competition to decide the top all-around gymnasts comes Saturday and Sunday.

8.   Feng only made the team because top Chinese gymnasts decided to skip the world championships to focus on their nationals next week.

9.   Ji Xiaoou was a top gymnast before transferring her skills to the slopes.

10.   Three top Romanian male gymnasts apparently decided not to return to their country following a meet last week, although no one seems to know where they might be.