Swim Czar Popov calls it a day
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Alexander Popov, twice a double sprint freestyle swimming gold medallist in the Olympics, said on Thursday it was unlikely he would compete again.
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Michael Phelps insists his main aim in life is to raise the profile of swimming in the United States. And at the end of the Athens swimming meet, no-one can accuse him of under-achieving on that score.
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The eight days of Olympic swimming competition ended Saturday night at the Athens Summer Games. And the big star was American Michael Phelps.
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(CP) - After the pressure of the Olympic Games, training for the world short course swim championships was a challenge for Victoria&#39;s Rick Say.
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ATHENS -- Attention, ladies and gentlemen. For his next act, Michael Phelps will break an Olympic record, hurry to the warm-down pool for a swim, run to the locker room, pull on a warm-up suit, walk out to the pool deck and take part in ...
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Australia's Eamon Sullivan broke Alexander Popov's eight-year-old world record for 50 meters freestyle on Sunday, instantly inheriting the title as the fastest swimmer in history.
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Restano Ivanov, Medvedev, Lavrov e Serdiukov, fuori Gref
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By Ingrid Stegemoeller, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep.
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The legendary Russian swimmer, who has won four Olympic gold medals, has made the decision following his unsuccessful Athens Olympics, French newspaper L&#39;Equipe reports.
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Politics: 11 October 2004, Monday. Bulgaria's former Ambassador to Germany Nikolay Apostolov told local 24 Hours daily he would sue all characters involved in the Berlin scandal.
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NARO-FOMINSK DISTRICT, Russia -- Just after 11 on a recent Sunday morning, 73-year-old Viktor Yakubovich stepped through an iron gate in the backyard fence of his country home. He emerged into the mythic stillness and wetness of the Russian woods, which stretched out before him in a canvas of gre...
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By Keri Brenner, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb.
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Alexander Popov, twice a double-sprint freestyle Olympic gold medalist, said Thursday it was unlikely that he would compete again.
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I love the smell of chlorine in the morning. Smells like 10-meter platform diving, which is a welcome slice of air-conditioned heaven on the hottest day of the Olympics.
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Even for healthy people, swimming can lead to an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, called pulmonary edema.
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Tamas Kasas was born the same month Hungary won its sixth Olympic water polo gold medal. For two decades, Hungarians waited for somebody like him to revive its dominance in a sport
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When Vladimir V. Putin visited the United States last week on a trip that included a bit of saltwater fishing with President Bush, he was introduced to a timeless tradition of the sporting scene: exaggeration.