1.   Matt Ryan... who won the individual gold in the three day event and led Australia to a famous win.

2.   After he won his first Olympic individual gold, Johnson sat in his press conference, watching a TV monitor as Lewis took his run around Olympic Stadium.

3.   But Valbe has never won an individual Olympic gold, and her World Cup performances have been oddly muted this season.

4.   De Bruijn and van den Hoogenband were a two-headed medal detector, combining for five individual golds and five world records.

5.   Despite an encouraging early summer, Guidry seems a long shot to finally grab an Olympic individual gold.

6.   Four gold medals would follow in the next nine days, making Heiden the first Olympian to claim five individual golds in one year.

7.   However, an individual gold is likely to remain elusive.

8.   However, an individual gold remained elusive.

9.   If Guidry wins an individual Olympic gold, it would represent a tremendous upset.

10.   Individual golds are valued, but what really turns on this nation of consensus is the team medal in its preferred sport.