41.   At the Olympics he made it to the quarter-finals where he lost to eventual gold medallist Andre Agassi.

42.   Asian Games gold medallists South Korea and Asian champions China got past their tough first hurdles to vie for the three tickets for the Atlanta Olympic Games next year.

43.   Atlanta Olympic gold medallist Ekaterina Serebrianskaja led Ukrainian team Gratsia to win the qualifying round of the rhythmic gymnastics club championships here Friday.

44.   Barcelona gold medallist Jesper Bank of Denmark failed to qualify.

45.   Bi Zhong of China retained his Asian Games hammer title here on Monday after the mystery withdrawal of world and Olympic gold medallist Andrey Abduvaliyev.

46.   British Olympic boxing gold medallist Audley Harrison was joined by former champions Henry Cooper, Barry McGuigan and Nigel Benn.

47.   Both Faulkner and Keating personally rang Riley, touted as a possible triple gold medallist in Atlanta, to apologise for any stress caused over the mixup.

48.   But the German, the Albertville Olympics double gold medallist, did not attribute her win to any one cause.

49.   But the gold medallist, surprised to have company in the final straight as she looked round, kicked again to win by five metres.

50.   Canadians Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz, also potential gold medallists, were being pragmatic.