Phelps Ruled Out of 400 Medley with Sore Back
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Michael Phelps pulled out of the  400 meter individual medley at the short course world swimming  championships with a sore back Friday.
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The U.S. team continued to  dominate the world short course championships Friday, claiming  five gold medals without the help of Michael Phelps after he  was forced out of the meeting with an injured back.
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INDIANAPOLIS, United States : Athens Olympic star Michael Phelps made a relatively relaxed start on the first day of the seventh World Short Course Swim Championship, qualifying second for the 200m freestyle final.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States won the men's 400-meter medley relay in world-record time Saturday night, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool. Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak won in 3 minutes, 30.68 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:31.54 set by the Americans at last year's world championships in Barcelona, Spain...
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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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Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps said Monday that he had made a mistake and would own up to the charges against him.
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After his arrest last week on drunken driving charges, the Olympic swimming star Michael Phelps said yesterday that he had made a mistake and would own up to the charges against him.
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Michael Phelps easily qualifies for the semifinals of the 100-meter backstroke, but his main rival in the event seems to have put behind his earlier struggles.
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ATHENS -- Michael Phelps was sitting in the bleachers in his team shirt and shorts last night, waving a small American flag and exulting in every gold medal. Especially the one he got without swimming a stroke.
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The dream of emulating Mark Spitz's  seven Olympic gold medals is over for Michael Phelps but the  American refused to be disappointed after finishing third in  the most eagerly-awaited race of the Athens Games Monday.
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Michael Phelps showed no signs of either yesterday, swimming to two gold medals in the span of an hour at the Athens Olympic Games.
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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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Il nuotatore statunitense Michael Phelps ha battuto, questa notte, il record mondiale, da lui detenu...
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Instead of worrying that Michael Phelps might break his Olympic record of seven gold medals, you might be surprised to learn that Mark Spitz has been rooting for Phelps to re-energize the sport of swimming. What really gives Spitz heartburn is acid ...
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American swimmer Michael Phelps added a  fourth Olympic gold at the Athens Games Thursday with a  comfortable victory in the 200 meters medley that kept him on  course for a record eight medals.
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Michael Phelps came to the Missouri Grand Prix to prepare for next month's world championships in Australia. He'll leave with at least one world record.
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Michael Phelps got his eighth medal at  the Athens Olympics Saturday without even getting wet when the  United States broke the world record in the men's 4x100 meters  medley relay.