21.   Heidt and Benshoof both have the look of medal winners.

22.   He was hoping to at least make trouble for the medal winners Sunday.

23.   His bottom-line approach is to reward the medal winners and sports that drive up TV ratings and attract corporate sponsors.

24.   In Barcelona, Tontchev lost to eventual gold medal winner Oscar De La Hoya of the United States.

25.   It was Kjus who had the most entertaining run of the medal winners, his skis skittering at times in bumpy turns.

26.   Legend has it that he once knocked out a future Olympic silver medal winner.

27.   Meanwhile . . . two gold medal winners in the same event.

28.   Medal winners Marty Nothstein of Trexlertown, Pa., and Erin Hartwell of Indianapolis, Ind., head the list of former Olympians to make the team.

29.   Moments later, the gold medal winner in the Kostelic family came by, skis in hand.