Swimming: They&#39;re masters of the game
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Goggles propped on top of his swimming cap, he couldn&#39;t stop looking at the scoreboard down the far end, even as he pulled himself up the ladder out of ...
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That&#39;s the goal now, with two events remaining in what already has been a grueling Olympic schedule for this 19-year-old US swimming star.
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The Olympic kayak team is full of inspiration after Hamish Carter and Bevan Docherty&#39;s medal winning feats in the triathlon. Ben Fouhy and Steve Ferguson watched the race on Greek TV, with the sound down!
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HERAKLIO, Greece -- It&#39;s almost as though their careers are intertwined, one just beginning, the other only a gold-medal match away from retirement.
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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 rival from Down Under in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games...
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US women&#39;s water polo coach Guy Baker was seething so much about an unusual call that he could barely speak. His world champion squad was too &quot;crushed&quot; to explain what happened.
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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. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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ATHENS -- The defending champ took the blocks as if he were Apollo Creed last night, dressed in a star-spangled robe and trunks and brandishing his clasped hands like a prizefighter. And then Gary Hall Jr. went out and knocked the rest of the swimming world on its backside again, winning the 50-meter freestyle by a hundredth of a second ...
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On a two-lane road in Fairfax City, Carly and Olivia Aull were headed to swim practice at 4:45 a.m., the improbable hour when several thousand competitive swimmers in the Washington area arrive at their pools. Carly, 17, was at the wheel as they passed apartments, then a school, making their way...
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Michael Phelps wins more golds in Athens than Holland, New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
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One of the more remarkable qualities Michael Phelps has displayed during his quest for eight swimming medals has been his ability to focus.
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American Natalie Coughlin won Olympic gold in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night. Coughlin, the only woman ever to swim under 1 minute in the event, finished first in 1 minute, 0.37 seconds.
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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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RESTORING muscle to the national men&#39;s team will be high on the agenda of Australia&#39;s new head swimming coach, Alan Thompson.
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps swam the race of his life - then topped himself again. Capping a magnificent Olympics with a magnanimous gesture, Phelps matched Mark Spitz's record of four individual swimming gold medals and then gave up a coveted spot on the 400-meter medley relay team to Ian Crocker - the man Phelps had just beaten...
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Michael Phelps has reached the stratosphere of sports stardom: He&#39;s on a first-name basis with fans. &quot;People come up to me and say, &#39;Are you Michael?
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Is this you? You hate the Olympics. You don&#39;t know the difference between a discus and a high beam. You think Michael Phelps is the leader of a group of highly specialized government agents.