101.   Even that seemed unlikely a few days ago, when a three-game losing streak in the preliminary round pushed them to the brink of extinction.

102.   Finland carried four points from the preliminary round into the second round.

103.   Five fell in the preliminary round last month, leaving Tung the favorite against retired chief justice Yang Ti Liang and businessman Peter Woo.

104.   Former U.S. all-around champion Vanessa Atler won three individual event titles Friday night to lead after the preliminary round of the American Cup gymnastics competition.

105.   Four teams played in the final leg of preliminary rounds in Japan, while the United States, South Korea, China and Germany competed in Beijing.

106.   Four years later, he brought Sweden to the World Cup in Argentina, where the team was knocked out in the preliminary round.

107.   Greece is participating in group two preliminary rounds with Norway, Georgia, Latvia, Slovenia and Albania.

108.   He later won a preliminary round of votes in a village election, but officials declared it void and he lost the next round.

109.   He also taunted the South Africans before the finals by doubting their nerve in big games after dominating preliminary rounds.

110.   He had planned to take it easy in the preliminary rounds, and stayed true to that plan on the final straightaway.