1.   Athletics Canada, the governing body for track and field, used the weekend meet as the qualifier for the world tournament.

2.   Boris Becker and Ivan Lendl have both withdrawn from the world indoor tournament in Rotterdam.

3.   And in the world tournament last year, he was the leading scorer until the playoff round.

4.   Baumgartner, who came through the consolation ranks to win a bronze, was confident the U.S. will improve dramatically in the world tournament.

5.   Both Holmes, on leave from Princeton, and Zaban were playing in their first world tournament.

6.   Both players will skate for the United States in the coming world junior tournament in Switzerland.

7.   A year later, she was voted the top defenseman in the IIHF world championship tournament.

8.   Cleary twice missed his chance to play for Team Canada in the world junior tournament because he reported to camp overweight and out of shape.

9.   Four members of the Slovakia team that finished seventh in the world junior tournament watched practice and visited with Jozef Stumpel in the locker room afterward.