MacArthur Breaks Round-The-World Sail Record
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FALMOUTH, England  - Britain's Ellen MacArthur  became the fastest person to sail solo round the world Monday,  completing her gruelling journey in just over 71 days and 14  hours and smashing the record set last year.
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The guy in a red shirt and a swoosh turned in a record-setting performance to win the World Match Play Championship on Sunday, just as everyone expected. Paul Casey said his choice of apparel was merely a coincidence.
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Dame Ellen MacArthur comes home ahead of more than 1,800 yachts in the Round the Island Race.
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Ellen MacArthur breaks the record for a solo trip from the English Channel to the Cape of Good Hope.
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Sailor Ellen MacArthur's bid to break Francis Joyon's 72-day round-the-world record has been thrown into doubt with news her mainsail rigging has been badly damaged.
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Ellen MacArthur has endured stormy seas, 65 mph winds, a broken sail, burns, bruises and exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale. The payoff: a solo around-the-world sailing record.
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FALMOUTH, England  - Britain's Ellen MacArthur  headed home to a hero's welcome Tuesday after breaking the  record for sailing solo round the world.
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Italy's Enrico Fabris surprised the powerful Dutch men Sunday by winning his first speedskating World Cup title, setting a course record for 1,500 meters.
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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Ellen MacArthur solves some of the problems threatening to end her bid to break the solo round-the-world record.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke a world record for speed on Tuesday, cruising over the Pacific Ocean at just under 7,000 miles per hour in a NASA test of cutting-edge &quot;scramjet&quot; engine technology.
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Ellen MacArthur has endured stormy seas, 65 mph winds, a broken sail, burns, bruises and exhaustion - even a close encounter with a whale.
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An unmanned experimental jet has broken a world record for speed, cruising over the Pacific Ocean at just under 7000 miles (11,265km) per hour in a NASA test of cutting-edge &quot;scramjet&quot; engine technology.
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Frenchman Francis Joyon breaks Ellen MacArthur's solo round-the-world record by 14 days.
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An unmanned experimental jet broke  a world record for speed on Tuesday, cruising over the Pacific  Ocean at just under 7,000 miles per hour in a NASA test of  cutting-edge "scramjet" engine technology.
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Aaron Peirsol of the United States  set a short course world record of one minute, 50.52 seconds in  the men's 200 meters backstroke at the world championships on  Monday.
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Ellen MacArthur is to be made a dame as she gets a hero's welcome after sailing around the world solo in record time.