31.   U.S. Olympic sprint champion Florence Griffith Joyner suffocated during an epileptic seizure as she slept, authorities said Thursday.

32.   He was a Junior Olympic sprint champion in Jamaica with a big build, a combination attractive to American football coach John DiBiaso.

33.   His decision follows the success of world sprint champion Linford Christie, who has used Sydney as a summer training base over the past few years.

34.   European sprint champion Irina Privalova is one of several Russian women in the select squad, who will have their own special motivation.

35.   Two former sprint champions, Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, also made huge contributions to the drama on their way into retirement, although in widely contrasting styles.

36.   Olympic sprint champion Linford Christie has done a lot of smiling this year.

37.   Sprint champion Linford Christie has become a high-speed grandfather, according to a report in the Sun newspaper here on Wednesday.

38.   The British sprint champion was already at it last year, declaring that he would not defend his title -- definitely.

39.   The double sprint American champion had gone into the race with seven world championship medals to her name, but no individual gold.

40.   The late withdrawal of Olympic and world sprint champion Linford Christie may have infuriated the International Amateur Athletic Federation.