1.   When Max Immelmann, the first of the great German aces, was killed, a Crown Prince and twenty generals attended his funeral.

2.   In third place was German ace Katja Seizinger, who now has a bronze medal to go with the golds she won here in the downhill and the combined.

3.   And German ace Boris Becker makes his first appearance this season.

4.   But the German ace is expected to drive again in more tests in Jerez, also in Spain, this weekend, Buchinger said.

5.   Croatia had hoped the fifth-ranked man on the ATP Tour could sweep both his singles against the two German aces.

6.   First and second seeds, German ace Boris Becker and Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia, were both knocked out of the tournament in first round upsets on Tuesday.

7.   Four years ago at Nagano, Zoeggeler won silver behind Hackl, but the German ace clearly was on a different level.

8.   German ace Jan Ullrich decided to skip both the Giro and the French tour because of a knee injury.

9.   The German ace wasted no time firing a message to the rest of the field, including his longtime rival, Prock.

10.   The German ace, donning the colors of Team Coast, also moved to the top of the overall points tally, fetching him the silver jersey.