Swimmers get early medal call at Panams
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Swimmers competing at the Panamerican Games on Tuesday got a little taste of what to expect in Beijing next year, with the first medals decided in morning finals.
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As of Saturday, the end of the swimming competitions, he had eight medals: Six gold and two bronze. In comparison, Canada has won two silver and a bronze.
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In an attempt to encourage more cities to bid for world events, FINA will from next year introduce the wearing of bibs bearing sponsors&#39; names for swimmers as they march to the poolside.
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* With star swimmer Michael Phelps watching from the stands after giving his spot to teammate Ian Crocker, the United States won gold in the men&#39;s 400-meter medley relay in a world-record time of 3:30.
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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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American Michael Phelps captured a  fourth gold at the Athens Games Thursday, keeping him on course  to be the first swimmer to win eight medals at a single  Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece - With the quest to surpass Mark Spitz out of the way, Michael Phelps could savor one of the greatest races in swimming history. Phelps claimed his second and third gold medals of the Athens Games on Tuesday, winning the 200-meter butterfly and coming back an hour later to lead off the United States' thrilling victory over Australia in the 800 freestyle relay...
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I love the smell of chlorine in the morning. Smells like 10-meter platform diving, which is a welcome slice of air-conditioned heaven on the hottest day of the Olympics.
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Australia has won two medals on the first day of the World Shortcourse Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. The Australian 4x200 metre women&#39;s freestyle relay team took silver, while 17-year-old Lara Carroll
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Marketing enters the sport of swimming in the form of bibs on pre-swim warmups and the new policy has many of the athletes steaming.
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U.S. teenager Michael Phelps powered his  way to two more golds in the Olympic swimming pool on Tuesday,  setting a new Games record in the 200 meters butterfly and  leading a 4 x 200 freestyle cliffhanger.
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Four gold medals and three world records in the swimming pool featured a weekend of China while three golds from track and field events brought the country to an insurmountable lead at the 12th Paralympic Games Saturday in Athens.
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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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ATHENS What looked suspiciously like an Olympic dual meet between Australia and the United States on opening night took a flip turn for the international on Sunday, as swimmers from Japan and, much more surprisingly, France and South Africa ended the ...
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Swimming the backstroke, Justina Langone pulled Latin Academy out to a strong lead in the first event - the 200-meter medley relay - and the Dragons never looked back, winning the relay and the Boston City Championships yesterday at Madison Park High School.
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ATHENS - American swimmer Michael Phelps collected two more gold medals Tuesday, but even he knew he wasn&#39;t the story of the day from the Summer Olympics in Athens.
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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