UA&#39;s Beard swims to silver in medley debut
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ATHENS - American swimmer Michael Phelps collected two more gold medals Tuesday, but even he knew he wasn&#39;t the story of the day from the Summer Olympics in Athens.
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On a night when Michael Phelps settled for bronze in his much-anticipated showdown with Ian Thorpe, Phelps' American teammates Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol won their first Olympic gold medals Monday. Coughlin, the top female on the U.S. team, won the 100-meter backstroke, while Peirsol touched first in the men's 100 back.
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Tony Azevedo whizzed a last-second shot past Croatian goalkeeper Frano Vican to give the American water polo team a 7-6 victory in its tournament opener yesterday.
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&#39;I awoke at 2 am in a daze and couldn&#39;t get back to sleep,&quot; Uri Fridman says of the morning after his son earned Israel&#39;s first-ever Olympic gold medal in mistral windsailing in Athens.
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps took care of qualifying for the Olympic 200-meter freestyle semifinals Sunday, and then found out he had been added to the American team for the evening's 400 freestyle relay final.    Phelps' rivals Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband and teammate Klete Keller were faster than the teenager in the 200 free preliminaries...
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Israeli windsurfer Gal Fridman makes sporting history by winning his country's first gold medal in the men's Mistral.
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps, seeking his sixth medal of the Athens Olympics, advanced in the 200-meter individual medley Wednesday with a conservative swim.
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Australia has won two medals on the first day of the World Shortcourse Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. The Australian 4x200 metre women&#39;s freestyle relay team took silver, while 17-year-old Lara Carroll
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Michael Phelps took care of qualifying for the Olympic 200-meter freestyle semifinals Sunday, and then found out he had been added to the American team for the evening's 400 freestyle relay final. Phelps' rivals Ian Thorpe and Pieter van den Hoogenband and teammate Klete Keller were faster than the teenager in the 200 free preliminaries.
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Paul Hamm became the first American man to claim the Olympic gymnastics men&#39;s all-round gold medal Wednesday.
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Australia&#39;s Jodie Henry armed herself with a world record while Michael Phelps targeted his fourth Olympic gold medal backed by a Games record in qualifying for Thursday&#39;s finals.
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ATHENS, Greece -- American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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Mariel Zagunis won the first fencing  gold for the United States for 100 years when she beat Xue Tan  of China 15-9 in the inaugural Olympic women's sabre final on  Tuesday.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - With one gold medal already, he could have packed it in. But it wouldn&#39;t have been right, not after what his teammate accomplished Saturday night.
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Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-metre freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening night on Thursday, giving the world&#39;s best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics.
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ATHENS, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- American teenager Michael Phelps, whose dream of winning a record-equalling seven gold medals was shattered on Monday, finally captured his second gold from the men&#39;s 200 meters butterfly at the 28th Olympic Games here on ...
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Michael Phelps wins his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday, leading the entire race.