Pereira making big splash at Panam pool
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Thiago Pereira swam away with two more gold medals on Friday, securing his status as the undisputed star of the Panamerican Games and a place in Brazilian sporting history.
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By DAVE HOUGHTON  A TOUCH of sunshine, and carp started cruising in the warm surface water at Moreton's Lingmere Fishery where local matchman John Armour won with 47lb 14oz.
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Athletes prepare to compete in the Pan-American Games due to open in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro shortly.
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ATHENS -- Seeing was admiring. &quot;Puerto Rico played as a team,&quot; said US coach Larry Brown. &quot;They were well-prepared and the coaching was incredible. They played so much harder than we did, and so the result was not a surprise. I think anybody watching this, who enjoys basketball, got a thrill out of that.&quot;
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Michael Phelps wins more golds in Athens than Holland, New Zealand, Spain and Canada.
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In the Agua Boa, an upper tributary of the Amazon near the Venezuelan border in Brazil, fly fishing for peacock bass is a favorite pastime.
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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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Great Britain&#39;s Mark Shipman squeezed into the semi-finals of the men&#39;s Olympic 3m springboard diving event. The 31-year-old from Sheffield amassed a total of 396.
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He will have to do something spectacular like that at Conseco Fieldhouse to keep pace with US teammate Kaitlin Sandeno. Phelps won the 200-meter freestyle Thursday night to open the World Swimming
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In 62 PGA Tour events, Camilo Villegas has earned three second-place finishes and two thirds. The 25-year-old native of Colombia has yet to break into the victory column, but yesterday he displayed some outstanding putting on his way to an 8-under-par 63.
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Aasif Mandvi has been making waves.
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BILLERICA -- More often than not, the rebound shot would have been a goal. There was ample space in the slot. There was still a clear look at the net.
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Thiago Pereira of Brazil broke the 40-year-old record of Mark Spitz with six swimming gold medals in one Pan American Games.Pareira won the menâs 200-meter breaststroke yesterday to earn his sixth gold medal of these Games, being held in Rio de Janeiro. He finished in 2 minutes 13.51 seconds, beating teammate Henrique Barbosa (2:13.83) and Scott Spann (2.13.98) of the United States.Spitz won five gold medals at the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 17 at the time; Pereira is 21.Spitz holds the record of seven Olympic golds won at the 1972 Munich Games.On Friday, Pereira won gold in the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle relay. Earlier, he won the 200 backstroke, the 400 individual medley and the 800 freestyle relay.Pereira has a chance to win two more medals.
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Alexandros Taxildaros is hoping to have a large home crowd behind him when he begins his Paralympic campaign next week. One of 12 swimmers who will be representing the host nation, he certainly
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About 20 strokes from the Key Bridge, the lactic acid kicks in. Ruth Stiver and Jen Reck have spent a full day at work, and now, at the end of their second practice of the day, the Pan American Games bronze medalists are cutting through the Potomac River on their narrow doubles shell and are star...
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BRAZIL defeated Bolivia 3-1 yesterday to move back to top spot in the South American World Cup qualifying race. Ronaldo volleyed in a rebound after just 50 seconds, bringing the Sao Paulo stadium crowd to
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FORMER Williams Formula One hopeful Bruno Junqueira snared victory on the Surfers Paradise street circuit in the Indy 300 yesterday, keeping alive the race for the Champ Car World Series title.