81.   Meeting the challenge, the Canadian bettered the reigning world champion and closed in further.

82.   Michelle Kwan, the reigning world and national figure skating champion, split with longtime coach Frank Carroll on Tuesday and plans to direct her own career.

83.   Meeting the challenge the Canadian bettered the reigning world champion and closed in ever further.

84.   Meeting the challenge, the Canadian bettered the reigning world champion and closed in ever further.

85.   Missing for the fourth meet in a row was reigning world and World Cup aerials champion Trace Worthington, of the United States.

86.   Michaela Dorfmeister of Austria, the reigning world downhill champion, wound up ninth but kept her lead in the World Cup overall standings.

87.   Most wanted Senegal to win, saying the African side deserved support because it was the underdog against the reigning world champions.

88.   Mrs. Murray and Smith, the reigning world helicopter freestyle champion, are also the first to circle the globe in such a small helicopter.

89.   Nandrolone is the same substance that Hunter, the reigning world champion in the shot put, tested positive for this summer.

90.   No wrestler is seeded, and even a reigning world or Olympic champion might meet his toughest opponent in the first round.