51.  The first Frenchman across was Richard Virenque of the Polti team in sixth place.

52.  The Kings begin play after the all-star break in sixth place in the Western Conference.

53.  The incident capped a nightmare week for the US team, which arrived in Nagano as a gold-medal contender but finished in sixth place.

54.  The macarena finished in sixth place in the reader survey.

55.  The new combination of Morgan and Dean Witter will vault into sixth place in the mutual fund sweepstakes.

56.  The man who never, ever does sixth place.

57.  The Kings nearly drew San Jose, but Phoenix scored four times in the third period to beat Nashville and pass the Kings for sixth place.

58.  The Knicks have fallen to sixth place in the Eastern Conference.

59.  The only question after that was whether Nikodinov could climb out of sixth place and grab the third spot for Helsinki.

60.  The other U.S. pair, Jenni Meno and Todd Sand of Costa Mesa, Calif., were in sixth place after the short program.