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(CNN) -- Danish sailor Niklas Holm, who was involved in a fatal traffic accident in Athens on Sunday night, will be allowed to compete if he is mentally fit, the Danish Olympic team&#39;s spokesman said.
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A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast. He finished shortly after midnight, said Mike Oram of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation.
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Denmark defeat South Korea in penalties to win their third straight title in the women's Olympic handball competition.
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By Lee Tolliver, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 10--Wes Laine is hoping the surf gods look favorably on him.   Laine is in California for the Quiksilver Surf Shop Challenge Championships.   Competition begins Monday.
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Britain's Ian Wynne wins his semi-final to qualify for the K1 500m kayak final.
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By JAN M. OLSEN     COPENHAGEN, Denmark  -- Denmark is joining Russia and Canada to see if it can lay a claim to the North Pole - and whatever natural riches may lie beneath it...
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A British sailor made waves in a round-the-world yachting competition when he used his radio to propose to his sweetheart, who is also a rival competitor.
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A search is under way for a man who is thought to have been swept overboard in the North Sea.
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ATHENS -- US sailors needed a big day to bring home gold and bronze medals from the sailing finale here yesterday. But rolling the dice on windshifts and starting tactics backfired both in Star and Tornado classes, and the Americans had to settle for a single silver medal.
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Sailors are bracing for the arrival in Norfolk this weekend of one of the bravest and most accomplished offshore skippers on earth. When Bernard Stamm rolls in, probably sometime Saturday, it will mark the end of 14,250 hard miles at sea, alone in a scary-fast sailboat.
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Fans of sailing can watch one competitor in the Vendee Globe challenge from the convenience of their mobile.
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Britain&#39;s Matthew Pinsent won his fourth Olympic rowing gold medal when his crew edged ahead of the world-champion Canadian team in the men&#39;s coxless four on Saturday.
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Denmark is to undertake an expedition to try to back its bid for the North Pole, the country's Science Ministry says.
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Nine sailors became the first official members of Britain's Olympic team for the Beijing Games following an announcment from the country's Olympic Association (BOA) on Tuesday.
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Fearful they will no longer be allowed to compete in the event that now serves as a national championship for menâs rowing, coaches are putting together a competition of their own.  The newly formed American Col
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Rower Matthew Pinsent has won a fourth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the coxless four, while Britain picked up further gold medals in the sailing, cycling and three-day eventing.
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TRACK: Dwain Chambers, 29, put British officials in a bind when he won an automatic qualifying spot this past weekend for next month's world indoor championships in Valencia, Spain. UK Athletics had tried to bar Chambers, who served a two-year drug ban after testing positive for the designer ster...