1.   Age took precedence over youth for a day in the Pan American Games athletics competition.

2.   Ahumble and Song were just two of more than a dozen athletes who were overcome by the sweltering heat in the Special Olympics World Games athletics competition Saturday.

3.   But there are several athletes who will seek double victories when the athletics competition begins Friday.

4.   Its state-of-the-art design allows lower seats to be lifted for athletics competitions.

5.   Quesada and Urrutia continued Cuban dominance of the jumping events at major athletics competitions.

6.   Sotomayor won his fourth Pan Ams gold in the high jump last Friday, the final day of the athletics competition.

7.   Sotomayor won the high jump on the last day of the athletics competition.

8.   The Golden League, devised by Nebiolo to increase the profile of international athletics competition, was set to commence with the Bislett Games in Oslo on Thursday.

9.   The Junior Pan American Games will be held in Tampa after Miami rejected the international athletics competition in the face of Cuban-American opposition.

10.   The walks were the only athletics competition at the Games on Monday.