Thorpe Wins 200M Freestyle; Phelps Third
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Ian Thorpe of Australia won the gold medal Monday in the 200-meter freestyle in an Olympic-record time of 1:44.71.
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ATHENS, Greece - Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games...
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Michael Phelps eventually was reduced to being a cheerleader. This one was all about Klete Keller. Keller just beat Ian Thorpe to the wall in the second-closest 800-meter freestyle relay finish in Olympic history, giving the United States a gold medal ...
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INDIANAPOLIS: Michael Phelps made a winning return to the pool at the world short course championships today, capturing the 200m freestyle title and the first of a possible six gold medals.
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BEIJING, Aug.18(Xinhuanet) -- Australian Ian Thorpe has beaten archrival Michael Phelps in a nail-biting Olympic men¡¯s 200-meter freestyle final between the four fastest swimmers in history, Shenzhen Daily reported Wednesday.
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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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American Michael Phelps edged teammate Ian Crocker for Olympic gold in the 100-meter butterfly Friday night, tying Mark Spitz's 32-year-old record for most individual swimming medals in one games &#151; four. Phelps has five gold medals and two bronze, with one day left in the swimming competition.
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ATHENS, Greece - Ian Thorpe touched the wall, pumped a fist in the air and let out a yell that all but said, "Take that!"   Two lanes over, Michael Phelps was draped over the rope, huffing and puffing as he looked at the scoreboard.    Phelps' improbable pursuit of Mark Spitz is over, Thorpedoed by the man in black...
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American swimmer Michael Phelps grabbed a fourth gold at the Athens Olympics Thursday with a clear victory in the 200 meters medley and gold for 16-year-old gymnast Carly Patterson leveled the US with China at 14 each.
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Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening night 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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Michael Phelps surely didn't bargain for this. His quest to win eight gold medals is over, doomed by America's worst showing in the 400-meter freestyle relay. Gary Hall Jr. is ticked off. And now comes the toughest race of all against Ian Thorpe. Not exactly what Phelps had in mind when he decided to challenge Mark Spitz.
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Michael Phelps won his second and third  Olympic golds for the United States on Tuesday, setting a new  Games record in the 200-meters butterfly before leading a 4 x  200 freestyle cliffhanger just over an hour later.
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ATHENS, Aug. 17 -- Rarely has a huge lead disappeared so quickly. Largely unheralded US swimmer Klete Keller jumped in the pool for the final leg of the 4x200-meter freestyle relay a second-and-a-half ahead of Australian legend Ian Thorpe.
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Pieter van den Hoogenband won the men's  100 meters freestyle at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday to  become just the third man to win swimming's premier race on two  occasions.
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American swimmer Michael Phelps added a  fourth Olympic gold at the Athens Games Thursday with a  comfortable victory in the 200 meters medley that kept him on  course for a record eight medals.
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Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening night Thursday, giving the world's best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics.
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Michael Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on Thursday night, giving the world&#39;s best swimmer a chance to equal the six gold medals he won at the Athens Olympics.