Swimmer issues crowd plea
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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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ATHENS : America&#39;s hopes of salvaging its badly bruised Olympics pride suffered a major setback when for the first time in history their men failed to qualify for the 100m freestyle swimming final.
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A weary Michael Phelps targeted his  fourth Olympic gold medal in Athens, turning his attention on  Wednesday to the 200 meters individual medley and settling for  the second-fastest overall time in the heats.
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The noise was deafening and potentially unsettling in the minutes before the start of the men&#39;s Olympic 200-meter final. The Olympic Stadium crowd chanted &quot;Hellas!
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KINGSTON -- Swimming used to be more of a challenge than a good time for the three Kingfish Swim Club members.
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Olympic swimming went into the tank Thursday with a splash of allegations, jeers, reversals, interpretations and enough conspiracy theories to make Don King&#39;s hair stand up a few more inches.
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By Guy N. Limbeck, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Mar. 5--BOYS HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING AND DIVING  MINNEAPOLIS -- A rush and a wait. It was not a good combination for the John Marshall swimmers during the Class AA state swimming and diving meet.
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By Mari A. Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer  May 27--ATLANTIC CITY -- With large holiday crowds predicted to hit the Shore this weekend, you might have expected to see the waters off Atlantic City beaches filled with swimmers -- especially on a beautiful 90-degree day like yesterday.
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By Venice Buhain, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Feb. 12--OLYMPIA -- On the service before Valentine's Day, the Rev.
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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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The British Olympic Association is considering a move to bring a protest of Aaron Peirsol's gold medal victory in the 200-meter backstroke before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
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CAMBRIDGE -- Kyle Van Den Berghe could sense it. The second-year Bishop Feehan swimming coach felt his troops needed a boost in morale as the back-and-forth battle for first place with BC High waged on, so 10 minutes before his 400-yard freestyle relay team hit the pool for the final race of the day, he flip-flopped the middlemen in his ...
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ATHENS -- This was a duel in the pool -- the world&#39;s two greatest swimming powers going head-to-head for more than seven minutes at the Olympics.
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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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By Georgia Evdoxiadis  gevdoxiadis@@dailyherald.com  Though a bane to lake bathers everywhere, so-called swimmer's itch is no more than a cycle of life gone awry.
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The Latin Academy coed swimmers huddled at 5:30 p.m. yesterday inside Madison Park and hoisted their 17th straight Boston City Championship trophy. But there was one person missing.
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American Troy Dumais is in contention for a diving medal after today&#39;s preliminaries in the men&#39;s three-meter springboard competition.