1.   A Dutch team could also be expelled.

2.   A Dutch team dropped out of the running last year.

3.   A longtime Dutch Olympic team fan noted at a recent speed-skating competition that he had never seen so few countrymen and other Europeans at an international event.

4.   Designers like Thimister and the Dutch team of Viktor and Rolf, who showed a strangely wonderful Victorian silhouette, are choosing a different path.

5.   Curiously, the Dutch team seemed to get their orders filled first.

6.   It is the first time a cyclist from Rabobank, the lone Dutch team in the Tour, had ever worn the famed yellow jersey.

7.   Leblanc warned the Dutch team that he and the International Cycling Union, which governs the sport, were paying close attention to the police investigation.

8.   Neither the British nor the Dutch team has disclosed the cost of its balloon.

9.   Palmer made his Davis Cup debut in July, losing with his partner, Richey Reneberg, to the Dutch team of Paul Haarhuis and Jacco Eltingh.

10.   She was so pleased with the result that she recommended the Dutch team to Gersten and Bishop.