1.   He was a top international athlete, an Olympic champion.

2.   Indeed, many top athletes and even body-builders subsist on a vegetarian diet.

3.   Like all top athletes, he leaves nothing to chance, and trains harder than anybody.

4.   Many top athletes are perfectionists who drive themselves to excel.

5.   Top athletes can expect rich rewards if they win.

6.   Would either of them have avoided bypass surgery if they had not been top athletes?

7.   He is able, like a top athlete, to push himself upto and beyond his normal physical limits in a race.

8.   Along the way, top athletes made their marks on the court.

9.   And how are we supposed to become interested in the top American athletes when the network devotes so little coverage to the trials?

10.   And salaries for top female athletes are still far below the levels paid to men.