Phelps causes biggest splash
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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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Michael Phelps won the men's 200 meters  butterfly final at Athens on Tuesday to claim his second  Olympic gold medal.
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Six-time Olympic champion Michael Phelps was arrested last week and charged with drunken driving.
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American Michael Phelps swam an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night.
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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 ...
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Mark Spitz, you've got company. Michael Phelps matched Spitz's record of four individual gold medals in the Olympic pool with a stirring comeback in the 100-meter butterfly, nipping rival and teammate Ian Crocker at the wall Friday night.
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Michael Phelps (U.S.) won the men's 200  meters butterfly swimming gold medal at the Olympics on  Tuesday.
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American swimming superstar Michael Phelps said Sunday he was about to take a week off for the first time in his entire career. &quot;It will be the first week off I have ever had
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SALISBURY, MD. - Michael Phelps, winner of six gold medal in swimming at the Athens Olympic Games, has been charged with drunk driving.
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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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American Michael Phelps set a world record of one minute 53.71 seconds for the 200 metres butterfly at a Grand Prix meet in Missouri on Saturday.
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Michael Phelps, who thrilled packed crowds for a week with his record-breaking feats in the pool, bowed out in true style on the penultimate evening of the Athens Olympic swimming competition.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - In all honesty, did anyone really believe Michael Phelps could equal or surpass Mark Spitz&#39;s record of seven swimming Olympic gold medals? And as near-impossible it seems now in hindsight, didn&#39;t the $1 million bonus attached to it for ...
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Michael Phelps took his haul of gold medals at the Athens Olympics to three on Tuesday after winning the 200 meters butterfly and helping the United States beat Australia in the 4x200 freestyle relay.
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Doesn&#39;t it seem as though Michael Phelps just got out of the pool at the Olympics in Athens? He has barely had enough time to dry off, let alone spend any quality time at his usual haunts in suburban Baltimore
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 21, 2004 - Michael Phelps had a front-row seat at the pool, and made Olympic history without ever getting wet.