71.   After those on the podium, French skiers took the next three spots.

72.   Also dropped was a provision specifying how the six spots should be distributed between male and female athletes.

73.   Americans held the next five spots.

74.   As the host country, the Australian team automatically gets one of the eight spots, but the team wants to win a place on its own merits.

75.   Australia and Netherlands can each win their fourth game of the round robin and clinch the first two spots.

76.   Austrians and Swiss took the next four spots.

77.   Australia, Britain and Ukraine took the last three spots.

78.   But the rest of his program was strong enough to boost him to third, in position to grab one of the two spots for Nagano.

79.   But the other two spots appeared wide open.

80.   Carlette Guidry and Dannette Young took the first two spots.