41.   International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch will attend the gold medal game Sunday.

42.   Meanwhile, Hamm is still smarting from the tearful loss to Norway in the gold medal game at the Sydney Olympics.

43.   Russian coach Slava Fetisov, whose team faced upstart Belarus in the bronze medal game on Saturday, wondered whether the final matchup was predetermined.

44.   Scotland will meet Canada in the bronze medal game Sunday.

45.   Six-time defending champion Cuba plays Japan Sunday in the gold medal game at the Intercontinental Amateur Baseball Cup.

46.   Sheikh Ahmad said Iran would be favored in the gold medal game on Saturday.

47.   Some of the police efforts at crowd control seemed almost desperate Saturday afternoon before the bronze medal game between Singapore and Vietnam.

48.   Some of them were on the U.S. team that beat the Cubans during the Pan Am Games last year but lost to them in the gold medal game.

49.   South Korea and Japan met in the gold medal game later Wednesday.

50.   Sweden was to play three-time defending champion Canada in the gold medal game later Thursday night.