1.   These included the abolition of apartheid laws, the non-racial unification of sports bodies, and normalization of relations with sports bodies elsewhere in Africa.

2.   Accountability from the sports bodies that have become used to taking USOC dollars and going their own way.

3.   Even after the USOC voted formally to keep the athletes home in April, the sports bodies still held trials, the athletes still kept training.

4.   First, of course, is the problem with all of that speed coupled with a high-profile sport utility body.

5.   In the meantime, however, some European governments began to take antidoping action independent of international sports bodies.

6.   Material from wire services, personal interviews, the US Olympic Committee, international federations, and national sports bodies was used in this report.

7.   Material from wire services, the US Olympic Committee, international federations, national sports bodies, and interviews was used in compiling this report.

8.   Meanwhile, sports bodies that may never win a medal will be trying to convince the USOC of their intangible value.

9.   Meanwhile, the sports bodies face potentially divisive internal wrangles about where the money should go.

10.   No, a sports body cannot establish its own rules.