1.   And when baseball became a medal sport at the Barcelona Olympics, the Cubans easily won the gold.

2.   Beach volleyball makes its first appearance as a medal sport in the Olympics this year.

3.   Bus driving was a medal sport, only nobody medaled.

4.   Curling and snowboarding are the newest medal sports at the Nagano Games.

5.   Its only hope for further Olympic recognition was to become a medal sport, and it finally succeeded.

6.   Mountain bike racing will makes its debut as a medal sport in Atlanta.

7.   One subject of discussion was whether to name the relatively young sport triathlon to the Summer Olympic program as a medal sport.

8.   She returned to the pentathlon when it was named a medal sport for Sydney.

9.   Snowboarding is making news and drawing attention in its first year as a medal sport.

10.   The most surprising development is the number of Latinos who are contending for the first taekwondo team to compete as an official medal sport at the Olympics.