Rowing: Olympic champ Pinsent quits
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Four-time Olympic gold medallist Matthew Pinsent retires from rowing.
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Legendary Russian swimmer Alexander Popov has retired from swimming, according to French newspaper L&#39;Equipe. The four-time Olympic gold medallist has not confirmed his retirement but has admitted he is unlikely to ever race again.
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Matthew Pinsent, the four-time Olympic gold medallist, confirmed today that he is to retire from the sport - as reported in The Times yesterday.
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The announcement by Olivier Panis here yesterday that he will retire from racing at the end of the season at the age of 38 to take up a testing role at Toyota not only created a vacancy
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Olympic sprint medalists Kostas Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou withdrew from the Athens Games, overshadowing the fifth day of competition in which Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe will compete for his third gold.
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Former England captain Lawrence Dallaglio announces his retirement from international rugby.
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Rower Matthew Pinsent wins his fourth gold medal Saturday after his boat edges Canada by .08 seconds in the coxless four.
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ATHENS: The Australian Olympic women&#39;s eight have been reprimanded for a breach of team protocol over an ugly war of words between crew members after one quit rowing three quarters of the way through the Olympic final.
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Britain&#39;s Matthew Pinsent won his fourth Olympic rowing gold medal when his crew edged ahead of the world-champion Canadian team in the men&#39;s coxless four on Saturday.
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James Cracknell confirmed yesterday that he will be taking a year out from his rowing career, a day before his fellow gold medallist from the Olympic fours at this year&#39;s Olympics, Matthew
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With characteristic eloquence and humour, the 34-year-old quadruple Olympic rowing champion yesterday announced his widely-predicted decision to retire, thus laying to rest the question that
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US Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, was forced to withdraw from competition at the Short Course World Swimming Championships in Indianapolis because of back pain.
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Double Olympic rowing champion James Cracknell is to take a year out of the sport but hopes to return to compete at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
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Toyota's Olivier Panis will retire from Formula One at the end of the 2004 season.
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Matthew Pinsent created a piece of Olympic history this morning when he led the Great Britain coxless four to gold after the tightest of photo finishes on at the Schinias rowing centre.
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Swimming At 24, Ian Thorpe believes he has more important things to do than pursue more Olympic glory. The most successful Australian in the history of the Games announced his retirement from competitive swimming yesterday. Plagued by illness, injury, and a lack of motivation, Thorpe hasn't competed at a major meet since the 2004 Athens Olympics and originally planned to ...
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Alexandre Vinokourov's Astana team withdraw from the Tour de France after he tests positive for blood doping.