1.   Women athletes wear cropped tops and tight shorts.

2.   Lean hard-training women athletes may menstruate less frequently or not at all.

3.   American women athletes have never had greater opportunities than they do today.

4.   Among elite women athletes, balance tends to be the most prevalent characteristic.

5.   And Chastain has become a lightning rod for a current firestorm of debate about women athletes, their bodies and the touchy topic of sexuality.

6.   And who could ignore the media sensation created at the Atlanta Olympics by the U.S. women athletes, who threatened to outshine their male peers at every turn?

7.   But even this scarred soul believes that the people and programs involved here have too much self-respect to be involved in luring recruits with their women athletes.

8.   But in the Bush era, the federal government may no longer be the guarantor of equity for women athletes.

9.   But the courtroom remains the only resort of many women athletes.

10.   But the increased number of women athletes is only part of the picture.