Swimming: Record Set in Manhattan Swim
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Exhausted and shriveled from nearly a day and a half in the water, Skip Storch completed a record swim by circling Manhattan three times in 32 hours 52 minutes 30 seconds.
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ATHENS, Greece - Stephon Marbury set a U.S. Olympic record with 31 points, and a U.S...
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Michael Phelps has proven he is the best swimmer ever -- in and out of the pool. Yesterday, the 6-ft. 5-in. 19-year-old from Baltimore won his sixth gold medal to add to his two bronze, making him the swimmer
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Michael Phelps won the gold medal in the 400 individual medley and set a world record in a time of 4 minutes 8.26 seconds.
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ATHENS, Greece - 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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Roland Schoeman of South Africa won the 50-meter freestyle Wednesday at a short-course swimming World Cup meet, one day after setting a world record in the 100 individual medley.
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An explosive performance from Tyson Gay led to a championship record of 19.76 seconds in the 200 meters. Jamaican Usain Bolt took the silver.
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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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You probably haven't heard about one of the toughest endurance sports around: the deca-ironman. That's 38 km swimming, immediately followed by an 1800 km bicycle ride and a 420 km run. Currently, the world record stands at about 187 hours, held by a German housewife. Nobody else has ever finished the course below 192 hours.
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ATHENS, Greece - Mark Spitz, you've got company after all. 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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An article last Thursday about cold-weather exercise misstated the accomplishment of Lewis Gordon Pugh last July while swimming near the North Pole. He completed a kilometer in just under 19 minutes, not a mile.
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Australia's Eamon Sullivan broke Alexander Popov's eight-year-old world record for 50 meters freestyle on Sunday, instantly inheriting the title as the fastest swimmer in history.
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A series of unusually quick times in the men&#39;s 100 metres heats have sparked expectations of a possible world record in Sunday&#39;s Olympic final.
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On a two-lane road in Fairfax City, Carly and Olivia Aull were headed to swim practice at 4:45 a.m., the improbable hour when several thousand competitive swimmers in the Washington area arrive at their pools. Carly, 17, was at the wheel as they passed apartments, then a school, making their way...
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The last long-course world swimming record held by now discredited Communist East Germany was finally consigned to history by an American quartet at the Olympics on Wednesday.
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Australia&#39;s Brooke Hanson won a record sixth gold medal at one swimming World Short Course Championships. She saw off American Amanda Beard&#39;s challenge to take the 200m breaststroke title in Indianapolis in a time of two minutes and 21.
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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.