41.  Eight countries are taking part in the new Olympic team format.

42.  Easton's association with U.S. Olympic teams spans a decade, which explains the more cautious expectations Darby has of the financial windfall.

43.  Eight of the last nine United States Olympic teams have included at least one of his Tar Heels.

44.  Drummond missed the Olympic teams in both 1988 and 1992, reaching the semifinals of the 100 and 200, respectively.

45.  Eldredge was 16 that year, just up from juniors, skating against Boitano and Wylie and Christopher Bowman for a place on the Olympic team.

46.  Eleven players were told they had made the team, which will become the nucleus of the 1996 Olympic team, which will be officially named in May.

47.  Encouraged by some friends while in college to take up fencing, he pushed hard enough to make the Australian Olympic team within a few years.

48.  Eric Flaim was the choice of Olympic team captains to be the American flagbearer for the 1998 Nagano Games.

49.  Ervin's father, Jack, is three-fourths African-American and so Ervin became the first swimmer of African-American descent to grace a U.S. Olympic team.

50.  European club teams, which feed Olympic teams throughout the continent, have started their regular seasons.