1.   Although Chinese sports officials strongly denied these claims, it was only a matter of time before the truth was to be uncovered.

2.   As it is, concerned sports officials say, bad sportsmanship by adult athletes is having a negative effect on children.

3.   Because scientists do not yet have a test to detect the use of EPO, sports officials began setting limits on hemoglobin concentrations.

4.   A fight in the Dome would be contingent on Showtime, promoter Don King and Atlanta sports officials satisfying Holyfield financially.

5.   Brennan is not the first sports official to run afoul of the law.

6.   But he defended the game, saying it was the responsibility of sports officials to avoid panic.

7.   But some sports officials wonder if Strang is seeing stars instead of gold.

8.   Flores and Susan Blackwood, executive director of the San Antonio Sports Foundation, will attend meetings of national sports officials in Brazil at the end of the month.

9.   For the most part, sports federation officials deemed the events a success.

10.   Funny, but I had never previously heard American sports officials citing soccer as their role model.