41.   Blair won her fifth overall gold medal at the Lillehammer Games in February after dominating the sport for nearly a decade.

42.   In recent years, Chinese women swimmers have dominated the sport.

43.   Italy, stocked by the best pro league in the world, has dominated the sport this decade, with the exception being in the Olympics.

44.   Now the nation is looking to El Guerrouj as the worthy successor to middle distance great Said Aouita, who dominated the sport a decade ago.

45.   Nike has come under criticism recently from some in soccer for trying to dominate the sport.

46.   Now a nostalgia craze has spread to the classic British motorcycles, which dominated that sport in the States for nearly a quarter-century following World War II.

47.   Prost, the driver who once dominated the sport, filed for bankruptcy in November, attributing the move to poor results and a bad economic climate.

48.   Rumors of drug use have surrounded the Chinese women swimmers since they began dominating the sport in recent years.

49.   She recovered from that fall to dominate her sport the next year, winning the overall title in the inaugural IAAF Grand Prix series.

50.   Since the Super Bowl became the American pro football championship game, three franchises have dominated the sport.