1.   Could it be, faithful Olympic viewers, that it will be Johnson who shockingly improves enough to run the final curve and hand the baton to Lewis?

2.   Li Jiajun of China appeared to try to pass Ohno on the outside on the final curve, and the two bumped.

3.   Postma had clicked one skate against the other on the final curve and had to straighten up to keep from falling.

4.   Running in the second lane, Johnson made up the stagger on half the field on the backstretch and had a five-meter lead around the final curve.

5.   When he accelerated out of the final curve, they would have to begin chasing him just as their legs grew heavy with fatigue.

6.   With her long legs and fluid stride, Perec had taken the lead coming out of the final curve.

7.   As Casey FitzRandolph turned into the final curve Tuesday, an orange cone suddenly ricocheted off his right skate.

8.   France appealed the victory of Mori, arguing he had stepped outside his lane on the final curve.

9.   Niyongabo, who had taken the lead going into the final curve, finished six hundredths behind.

10.   On the final curve, it became a drag race down the straightaway with Irvine holding off Hakkinen.