Australia's Thorpe quits the pool
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Australia's greatest ever swimmer Ian Thorpe announced his retirement from the sport at the age of 24 on Tuesday.
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Greek national sporting hero Kostas Kenteris and training partner Ekaterini Thanou have withdrawn from the Olympic Games.
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Australia's Ian Thorpe soared past Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands to win the most anticipated race of the Olympics. Michael Phelps finished third.
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Michael Phelps ended his magnificent Olympics with a magnanimous gesture. He matched Mark Spitz's record of four individual gold medals in the pool, then gave up a coveted spot on the 400-meter medley relay team to Ian Crocker &#151; whom Phelps had just beaten.
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Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands missed qualifying for the semis in the 50 freestyle this morning, and the world&#39;s headline writers heaved a sigh of relief. When the Flying Dutchman was beaten by Australia&#39;s Ian Thorpe in the 200 freestyle on ...
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Rower Matthew Pinsent, who has won four Olympic gold medals, has announced he is retiring from the sport. That means Pinsent won&#39;t equal the five gold medals won in successive Olympics by another rower, Sir Steven Redgrave.
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Swimming At 24, Ian Thorpe believes he has more important things to do than pursue more Olympic glory. The most successful Australian in the history of the Games announced his retirement from competitive swimming yesterday. Plagued by illness, injury, and a lack of motivation, Thorpe hasn't competed at a major meet since the 2004 Athens Olympics and originally planned to ...
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Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist announces his retirement from cricket.
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Mark Philippoussis officially withdrew from the Australian Open on Thursday with a thigh muscle injury.
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Iran's Arash Miresmaili withdraws from the Olympics amid confusion over his reasons.
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A few months after winning his fourth Olympic Gold Medal Matthew Pinsent, one of Britain&#39;s premier rowers in recent years has announced his retirement.
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TONY EASTLEY: Ian Thorpe now has the full set of Olympic medals, winning bronze after coming surprisingly close in trying to win the Games treble  that is the 100, 200 and 400 metres freestyle events. In winning bronze in the 100 metres final, Thorpe ...
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South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock has announced his retirement from international cricket following the second day's play against West Indies here Friday.
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BEIJING -- Former Olympic sprinter Maurice Greene announced his retirement on Monday.
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Greek weightlifter Leonidas Sampanis is stripped of his bronze medal and expelled from the Olympics for a doping offense.
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Torri Edwards is out of the Olympics after losing her appeal against a drug ban.
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Controversial Greek sprinters and doping suspects Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou quit the Olympic Games on Wednesday moments after exiting an IOC inquiry which could have expelled them for missing a mandatory drugs test.