61.   Western Samoan rugby is in crisis and could lose half of its World Cup squad if the sport does not become professional, team captain Pat Lam said Friday.

62.   In the decade that followed, the sport for women became a sport for girls, then a sport for children.

63.   There was frequently a tendency, when a sport became professional, for the financial benefits to be restricted to players, officials and owners.

64.   Unless Europe can muster new talent to rival the long-reigning Chinese, the sport might become not worth watching, they and others said.