51.   World champion Sri Lanka won the trophy.

52.   World figure skating champion Chen Lu won an Asian Winter Games gold medal with silky artistry Saturday, helping China build its lead in the overall medals race.

53.   World chess champion Garry Kasparov won a monthlong championship match against Viswanathan Anand.

54.   In the end only double world champion Waldner could win a rubber, edging out Kong Linghui by three games to two.

55.   Defending Olympic champions Canada won another semi-final race with China, the bronze medallists in Nagano, trailing behind.

56.   The triple Olympic champion also won in Sestrieres, Italy, and Tignes, France, earlier this month.

57.   Most senior world champions have also won a junior world title.

58.   Rangers chairman David Murray insisted the Scottish champions will win the race to sign England midfielder Paul Gascoigne here on Wednesday.

59.   The Austrian Grand Prix is the only current Formula One race where the four-time world champion has never won.

60.   The champions have won their last four home games and are beginning to resume the air of domestic invincibility of recent seasons.