1.   A painkilling injection helped for a while in the second-round game against Belgium, but Matthaeus had to leave at halftime.

2.   Bruce Driver and Doug Lidster played with painkilling injections, according to Coach Colin Campbell, for injuries he did not specify.

3.   But pro football players and other athletes wear casts or take painkilling injections that enable them to compete.

4.   Kurt Warner, quarterback for the favored St. Louis Rams, has bruised ribs and may need a painkilling injection to get through the game.

5.   Adam MacDougall passed a fitness test on his ankle Thursday and second rower Ben Kennedy will take painkilling injections and play with a broken hand.

6.   Davis might opt to wear a flak jacket or to have a painkilling injection, but that decision will be made later.

7.   Key forward Martin Dahlin, who has suffered from injuries to both Achilles tendons, will play with the help of painkilling injections.

8.   Team doctors were assessing if he could make it, and whether to give him a painkilling injection to get him through the match.

9.   The team was considering giving him a painkilling injection to get him through the match, although it was not clear if they had taken that step.

10.   Warner took a painkilling injection before the game and was not bothered by the sore ribs that forced him to miss practice Thursday.