11.   Once, female swimmers had to retire in high school, with no college scholarships or money-making opportunities available to them.

12.   She has won four gold medals in the Olympics, and no female swimmer has won more.

13.   Two months later, at the Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan, seven Chinese female swimmers tested positive for the use of anabolic steroids.

14.   While many top-flight female swimmers from China are sturdy from head to toe, Le has broad and remarkably muscled shoulders but an otherwise slender frame.

15.   With the female swimmers, like the Russian pair that won the gold medal, everything is more synchronized.

16.   A former East German doctor and a swimming coach who admitted giving performance-enhancing drugs to young female swimmers were convicted Monday of causing bodily harm and fined.

17.   American Jenny Thompson was named best female swimmer.

18.   Australian head swim coach Don Talbot said Friday that Chinese female swimmers are still taking performance-enchancing drugs.

19.   Before the championships, vials of banned human growth hormone also were found in the luggage of Chinese female swimmer Yuan Yuan on her arrival at Sydney Airport.

20.   But Director-General Francois Carrard said the IOC would find another way to compensate the female swimmers who lost out to the East Germans.