11.   Killy had been triple gold medallist four years previously at Grenoble.

12.   Gourlay and Australian pair Ian Schuback and Commonwealth gold medallist Rob Parrella saw their bowls thrown out of the championship when they failed to pass the compulsory green test.

13.   The Olympic gold medallist signed up with Mersey Regional Health Authority yesterday as a freelance health promotion consultant.

14.   Atlanta Olympics gold medallist Somluck Khamsing proved too classy for his compratiot Terdsak Chandaeng.

15.   Canadian gold medallist Ross Rebagliati of Whistler, B.C., has tested positive for marijuana use, the Canadian Press news agency reported.

16.   Dual Olympic gold medallist Kieren Perkins was forced to join fellow distance star Grant Hackett in withdrawing from the meet.

17.   Knauss was the only Austrian other than double Olympic gold medallist and reigning World Cup overall champion Hermann Maier, to have won a downhill this season.

18.   Maier, a double Olympic gold medallist in Nagano, endangered his lead atop the World Cup overall rankings when he missed a gate halfway down.

19.   Notable by his absence from the event was Canadian Olympic giant slalom gold medallist Ross Rebagliati, who recently tested positive for marijuana.

20.   Puvanes is a black belt taekwondo exponent and the recent Sukma gold medallist in her weight category, the lightest.