Assies, US dominate World Short Course Champs
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Indianapolis - Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol broke his own 200-metre backstroke world record and helped the Americans set a 4x100 medley relay world mark on Monday at the World Short Course Swim Championships.
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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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Featherweight Raynell Williams defeats Khedafi Djelkhir and middleweight Shawn Estrada defeats Artur Zlatopolski to give the United States a 4-0 record at the world championships.
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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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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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INDIANAPOLIS - Australia set a world record in winning the 400-meter medley relay at the Short Course World Championships on Saturday night.
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Olympic silver medalist and 2002 world champion Irina Slutskaya presented an almost flawless program to take the lead after the short program at the Cup of Russia on Friday.
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Australia&#39;s Brooke Hanson charged to two gold medals while Ian Crocker needed a world record to give the United States their only individual victory at the world short course championships on Sunday.
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The United States women set themselves up as the team to beat at the world championships â and maybe next year in Beijing, too â with a razor-sharp and nearly mistake-free romp in qualifying yesterday in Stuttgart, Germany. They scored 245.025 points to take a 3.85-point lead over China.
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What the US men's and women's gymnastics teams pulled off at the recent World Championships in Germany was nothing short of extraordinary. The men, who were 13th last year and in danger of not qualifying for the Olympics, ended up fourth and just missed medaling in the all-around with Jonathan Horton. And after the women rallied to overtake defending champion ...
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Aaron Peirsol of the United States  set a short course world record of one minute, 50.52 seconds in  the men's 200 meters backstroke at the world championships on  Monday.
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Atlanta - The world&#39;s top three golfers were all within striking distance of the leaders after the first round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta on Friday.
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Australia&#39;s Brooke Hanson won a record sixth gold medal at one swimming World Short Course Championships. She saw off American Amanda Beard&#39;s challenge to take the 200m breaststroke title in Indianapolis in a time of two minutes and 21.
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Americans Paul Foerster and Kevin Burnham win their first Olympic titles after outmaneuvering their British rivals during the final 470 class race.
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Brooke Hanson has claimed her sixth gold medal of the World Short Course Championships with a win in the women&#39;s 200 metres breaststroke in Indianapolis.
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The US men's and women's eights pulled off huge victories in yesterday's Olympic rowing heats, each setting world bests to advance directly to Sunday's finals.
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BEAVER CREEK, United States  - American Bode Miller led a US one-two in the men&#39;s downhill, his fourth win in five races confirming him as the man to beat in the alpine World Cup.