Russian swimming great Popov retires
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Four-time Olympic gold medallist Alexander Popov of Russia has retired from swimming, French sports daily L&#39;Equipe reported Thursday.
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The 31-year-old swimmer, who owns an American-best career total of 12 Olympic medals, will retire after the World Short Course Championships in Indianapolis, the same city where her international career began in 1987.
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AFTER four Olympics competing for two countries, Irina Lashko ended her diving career in Athens without a gold medal. Melbourne-based Lashko, who owns two Olympic silvers and a bronze, finished seventh in
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Czech captain and playmaker Pavel Nedved has retired from international football because of persistent injury, the Czech soccer federation said on Friday.
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Alexander Ragulin, a defenseman on the great Soviet teams of the 1960s and 1970s and a three-time Olympic champion, died at 63.
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Stephan Eberharter announced his retirement on Friday after a decade and a half as a leading light of the Austrian Alpine skiing team.
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He is retiring from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he blew a mellow horn, but Russian soldiers once fired at a photograph of this veteran musician.
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Pavel Nedved, the Czech captain and playmaker, has retired from the national team because of persistent injury, the Czech soccer federation said Friday.
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Indianapolis, Oct. 12 - The pool where swimmers set four world records, where America&#39;s most honored Olympic swimmer Jenny Thompson said goodbye, is all gone.
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British windsurfer Nick Dempsey grabs a bronze medal with his last race in Athens on Wednesday.
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Juventus star Pavel Nedved has told the Czech Republic football federation he has retired at the age of 32 from international soccer after winning 83 caps.
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Andre Agassi will retire after this year&#039;s U.S. Open, leaving tennis after two decades during which he collected a career Grand Slam and morphed from &quot;Image Is Everything&quot; brashness to elder statesman.
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Juventus playmaker Pavel Nedved has officially announced his retirement from international football, a decision heâd been flirting with for months.
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Azeri, the world&#39;s all-time leading money-earning female, has been retired from racing. Michael Paulson, who heads his father&#39;s Allen Paulson Living Trust that raced Azeri, made the decision
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The Soviet Union's most successful ice  hockey player, Alexander Ragulin, has died aged 63, his former  club CSKA Moscow said Thursday. One of only two players along  with Soviet goaltender Vladislav Tretyak to win 10 world  titles, Ragulin also claimed three consecutive Olympic gold  medals in 1964, 1968 and 1972.
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A retired Connecticut pilot has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel. George Brunstad, 70, left Dover, England, Saturday morning heading for the French Coast. He finished shortly after midnight, said Mike Oram of the Channel Swimming and Piloting Federation.
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Former world number one Monica Seles announces that she is retiring after nearly five years away from tennis.