41.   The color of the Olympic rings will be pastel, reflecting Japanese culture, she said.

42.   The John Hancock insurance company has concluded that the scandal has devalued the Olympic rings and the value of the Games for advertisers.

43.   The Red Cross will have eight hospitality tents in the downtown Olympic ring.

44.   The proposal includes a route on the outskirts of the Olympic ring that would enable cyclists to bike to venues without interfering with Olympic buses and throngs of pedestrians.

45.   The resort created a logo on its Web site with five linked snowflakes that resembled the five Olympic rings.

46.   The pitch ends with the woman grinning as she draws Olympic rings in the sander toe.

47.   The service has even taken off the Olympic rings, which appear on the stamps, for the T-shirt designs.

48.   The shadow of the Olympic rings is giving some of them anxieties.

49.   The slick wheeler-dealers in Los Angeles devised a thousand ways to extract money from the Olympic rings, wildcatting in fields never imagined by the crusty old IOC.

50.   The stamps, which went on sale Thursday in Atlanta and Washington, DC, were approved by Olympic officials and carry the sanctioned Olympic rings.