Swimming: Hickman claims crown
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Britain's James Hickman win his fifth straight World Short Course 200m butterfly crown in Indianapolis.
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DEFENDING champion Inge de Bruijn of Holland won the women&#39;s 50m swim final in 24.58 seconds last night. It was the 30-year-old&#39;s first gold in Athens and the fourth of her career.
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Edmonton&#39;s Lori-Ann Muenzer defied two of the world&#39;s best cyclists Tuesday to top the field of 500-metre sprinters, laying claim to the first gold medal ever won by a Canadian track cyclist.
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Australia's Ian Thorpe soared past Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands to win the most anticipated race of the Olympics. Michael Phelps finished third.
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It is lucky for Michael Phelps that he  is blessed with broad shoulders and an arm span like the wings  on a jumbo jet. Not only does it enable him to swim like a fish  but it also helps him to carry the burden of his own great  expectations.
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Trainer Kenny Cox triumphantly returns to the Pimlico track with a new stud and a well-monied owner to win the $50,000 Sonny Hine Stakes on Saturday.
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Pieter van den Hoogenband won the men's  100 meter freestyle at the Athens Olympics Wednesday to become  just the third man to win swimming's premier race on two  occasions.
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Michael Phelps is named to the 4x100-meter freestyle relay team that will compete in Sunday's final, keeping alive his quest for a possible eight Olympic gold medals.
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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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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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ATHENS, Greece - Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands successfully defended his Olympic 100-meter freestyle title Wednesday night. Van den Hoogenband won the gold medal in 48.17 seconds - 13-hundredths of a second faster than his winning time at the Sydney Games four years ago...
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American Natalie Coughlin won Olympic gold in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night. Coughlin, the only woman ever to swim under 1 minute in the event, finished first in 1 minute, 0.37 seconds. Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who swims at Auburn University in Alabama, earned the silver in 1:00.50. Laure Manaudou of France took bronze in 1:00.88.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 7 -- One race, one gold for Michael Phelps. Kaitlin Sandeno was three times better. Phelps led all the way in winning the 200-meter freestyle at the World Short Course Championships on opening
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Ian Thorpe became Australia's greatest  Olympian and staked a claim to being the best swimmer of his  generation when he won "the race of the century" at Athens on  Monday.
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Ian Thorpe showed Michael Phelps what it means to be a swimming icon, clawing out a victory over Pieter van den Hoogenband in the Olympic 200m freestyle, as Phelps settled for bronze and the end of his seven-gold hopes.
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Chantelle Newbery gave up diving after her son was born, but she returned to the sport, and on Monday morning she became the first Australian to win an Olympic diving title in 80 years.
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FREDERIC Vergnoux has been appointed the new head coach at the City of Edinburgh Swimming club, the Frenchman replacing Englandâs Tim Jones.