Mildred M. Singleton, 70, 1956 Olympic gold medalist
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PASADENA, Calif. -- Olympic gold medalist Mildred McDaniel Singleton, one of the world's top female athletes of the 1950s, died Sept. 30 of cancer at a convalescent home. She was 70.
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Linda Collins Maurer, the first person to wear a Medic Alert bracelet, died at her home here on Oct. 13. She was 65. The cause was breast cancer, said her son, Paul Maurer.
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World records are rare, but even rarer in the Olympic world is having a country sweep the medals in one event. On Monday, Jeremy Wariner, Otis Harris and Derrick Brew did just that for the US in the 400-meter dash.
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Eighteen-year-old Allyson Felix set a world junior record of 22.18 seconds while winning the silver medal in the women&#39;s 200. She finished second to former University of Arkansas student Veronica Campbell
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New York City - Deena Kastor met with a group of children Friday in Central Park to deliver a message about pursuing big dreams, adding inspiration by displaying the bronze medal she won in the marathon at the Athens Olympics.
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USA Track &amp; Field on Monday announced the inductees for the Class of 2004 for the National Track &amp; Field Hall of Fame. The inductees are modern athletes Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Michael Johnson, Joan Benoit Samuelson
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Paul Hamm made the history on Wednesday when he clinched the Olympic men&#39;s gymnastic all-around title for the United States in one hundred years.
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Terin Humphrey and Annia Hatch got silver. Courtney Kupets got bronze. And Paul Hamm got mad. The United States upped its gymnastics medal haul to seven Sunday night, the most since the Americans won 16 at the boycotted Los Angeles Games in 1984. And they might not be finished yet.
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Paul Hamm of the USA celebrates with his coach after scoring a 9.837 in the horizontal bar to claim victory in the men&#39;s artistic gymnastics individual competition on August 18, 2004, during the Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Sports ...
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ATHENS, Greece - American Michael Phelps edged teammate Ian Crocker for Olympic gold in the 100-meter butterfly Friday night, tying Mark Spitz's 32-year-old record for most individual swimming medals in one games - four. Phelps has five gold medals and two bronze, with one day left in the swimming competition...
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ATHENS, Greece The Dominican Republic has its first Olympic gold medal. Felix Sanchez won the men&#39;s 400 meter hurdles in 47-point-63 seconds.
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At 84, Tomball resident Louise Semora had sparkling eyes and began her weekday mornings with a one-hour fitness walk. &quot;She was on top of the world,&quot; said her daughter, Melissa Brewer.
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ATHENS - It&#39;s a quirky statistic, one that makes you do a double-take until you check the record books. In the last 40 years only one White American, Dave Wottle, had won an Olympic gold medal in an event on the track.
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Olympic champions have their parents to thank for their physiology&#151;but no one is born a world-record holder. That also requires training, nutrition, desire, and determination.
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On an extraordinary day for Great Britain at the Olympics the gold-medal tally rose to six, thanks to outstanding performances from Matthew Pinsent&#39;s coxless four, yachtsman Ben Ainslie and cyclist Bradley Wiggins.
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ATHENS -- She won her first Olympic gold medal in kayaking when she was 18, the youngest paddler to do so in Games history. Yesterday, at 42, Germany&#39;s golden girl Birgit Fischer won her eighth Olympic gold in the four-woman 500-metre kayak race.
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TULARE, Calif. -- Bob Mathias, the former congressman and Olympic champion, was buried in the San Joaquin Valley city where he grew up.