1.   For the third year in a row, the University of Denver dominated the competition, after having won every invitational meet it entered this season.

2.   Dragila is very confident, having won her three invitational meets in Europe leading up to the championships.

3.   Frye said the record possibilities exist more for a one-race invitational meet in Europe this summer.

4.   He gets another chance at an invitational meet in Tokyo next weekend.

5.   He now is running mostly for fun in invitational meets.

6.   Invitational meets that highlighted the indoor and outdoor seasons were dropped this year.

7.   International Amateur Athletic Federation spokesman Christopher Winner confirmed that both runners tested positive for steroids at an invitational meet in Germany in late February.

8.   Invitational meets in Los Angles, Cleveland, San Jose, Calif., Houston and New Orleands were dropped this year.

9.   Radford said Jackson would run either at the Bislett Games in Oslo on Friday or at the invitational meet in Sheffield, England, on Sunday.

10.   The illness affected Jacobs for eight weeks, and kept her out of big invitational meets at Berlin and Brussels, plus the Grand Prix Final at Moscow.