Of Olympics, Records and Limits
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The runners, jumpers and throwers of the 2004 Athens Games may not have set world records, but at least they outdid their immediate predecessors.
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Thiago Pereira of Brazil broke the 40-year-old record of Mark Spitz with six swimming gold medals in one Pan American Games.Pareira won the menâs 200-meter breaststroke yesterday to earn his sixth gold medal of these Games, being held in Rio de Janeiro. He finished in 2 minutes 13.51 seconds, beating teammate Henrique Barbosa (2:13.83) and Scott Spann (2.13.98) of the United States.Spitz won five gold medals at the 1967 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was 17 at the time; Pereira is 21.Spitz holds the record of seven Olympic golds won at the 1972 Munich Games.On Friday, Pereira won gold in the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle relay. Earlier, he won the 200 backstroke, the 400 individual medley and the 800 freestyle relay.Pereira has a chance to win two more medals.
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British athletes were not the only ones making history in the Olympic Stadium on the final day of competition. The keenest of track historians, Hicham El Guerrouj entered the record books as
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ATHENS -- They are the most important 10 seconds, or thereabouts, the Olympic Games have to offer.
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ATHENS, Aug. 18 Â It was a scourge from the cold war era, standing for exactly 17 years like a stubborn sliver of the Berlin Wall. It was the longest-standing record in swimming, sobering proof that the sport had not quite escaped the specter of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Greece, an ancient nation, searched its  soul over a new doping scandal on Saturday while Michael  Phelps, a fresh-faced American teenager, prepared to enter the  Olympic record books without having to swim a stroke. The  Olympics started its eighth day with 32 gold medals up for  grabs in what has been dubbed ~Super Saturday.~
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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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In 2000, Greece brought home 13 medals. The Greek Olympic Committee hopes to double that number.
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ATHENS - Canada won two more medals yesterday, bringing our tally to nine as the Olympic Games enter their final weekend. Canadian athletes are in the hunt for more medals today with the hope of at least tying
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Economic size wields major influence over how well a nation does at the Olympics.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The world record was like graffiti on a masterpiece, a reminder of a sport&#39;s dark past.
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Statistics in sport often tell only half  the story.
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Athens - Olympic Games medal dreams were gunned down, rescued and put on hold in Athens after a series of protests. Nowhere was the sound and fury greatest than out on the athletics track and in the gymnastics arena.
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The bill arrived for the Athens Olympics on Friday -- about $11.6 billion, and it might climb higher. The tally announced by the government was almost double the original estimate, making the games by far the most expensive in Olympic history.
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ATHENS : As the Athens Paralympics drew to a close 1,001 moments, each more poignant and powerful than the last, rise to the surface in the search for the defining image of these unforgettable Games.
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Olympics organisers are to submit of one of the biggest planning applications in European history.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.