21.   Moments after the three-hour ceremony began, Emmys were awarded to previous winners of several longtime hit comedy shows.

22.   Not this time when Armstrong had to fight off the charges of previous winners Marco Pantani and Jan Ullrich and other former world champions such as Lauren Jalabert.

23.   Of course, previous winners and pretty period pictures and sentimental entertainments with foreign accents are traditionally catnip for academy voters.

24.   Previous winners include directors Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Milos Forman.

25.   Previous winners included Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Orville Wright, and Enrico Fermi.

26.   Previous winners of the Lemelson-MIT prize include MIT biomedocal engineer Robert Langer and computer pioneer Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse.

27.   Previous winners have gone on to dance with Alvin Ailey, sing on Broadway and perform with world-class orchestras.

28.   Previous winners have included such current principals of the Royal Ballet as Darcey Bussell and Tetsuya Kumakawa.

29.   Previous winners include Grete Waitz, Emil Zatopek, Lasse Viren, Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers and Alberto Salazar.

30.   Previous winners include Joan Rivers and Kathie Lee Gifford.