Sailing: Ellen sets second record
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Ellen MacArthur breaks the record for a solo trip from the English Channel to the Cape of Good Hope.
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PHILADELPHIA _ A Swedish astronaut kept a Frisbee in the air for 20 seconds Friday, claiming the new world record for "Maximum Time Aloft".  Only thing is, it was floating in zero gravity, aboard the International Space Station.
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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BERLIN: Japanâs Yoko Shibui ran the fourth fastest womenâs race in history on a chilly, drizzling Sunday and broke the Berlin Marathon record with a time of 2 hours, 19 minutes and 41 seconds.
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Germany's Thomas Rupprath celebrated the second day of the European shortcourse championships by setting a new world shortcourse record almost six years to the day after first setting it.
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SARAH ULMER gave New Zealand its first ever Olympic cycling gold medal and only their second gold of the Athens Games overnight. And she broke her own world record for the women&#39;s 3km individual pursuit.
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Ellen MacArthur suffers fresh damage to her mainsail which threatens her round-the-world record attempt.
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FALMOUTH, England  - Britain's Ellen MacArthur  headed home to a hero's welcome Tuesday after breaking the  record for sailing solo round the world.
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Ellen MacArthur is to be made a dame as she gets a hero's welcome after sailing around the world solo in record time.
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SYDNEY, Feb 20 (Reuters Life!) - The world's largest ocean liner Queen Mary 2 sailed into Sydney Harbor for the first time on Tuesday for a rendezvous with her sister ship Queen Elizabeth 2, attracting hundreds of spectators in a dawn flotilla.
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American World Cup Women's bobsleders Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming win for the second straight week, setting a track record at Utah Olympic Park on Friday.
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Australia has won two medals on the first day of the World Shortcourse Swimming Championships in Indianapolis. The Australian 4x200 metre women&#39;s freestyle relay team took silver, while 17-year-old Lara Carroll
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The Americansâ eight-man crew posted the second-fastest time â 14 minutes 3.71 seconds â in the eventâs 43-year history.
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American swimmer Aaron Peirsol set a world record of one minute and 50.52 seconds in the men&#39;s 200-meter backstroke final here Monday at the World Short Course Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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There was the Aussie leading the race. There was the American with the Aussie-themed daughter named Sydney hanging tough in second.
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Francis Joyon, a Frenchman, circled the planet in 57 days 13 hours 34 minutes 6 seconds in a trimaran, shattering the record set by Ellen MacArthur by two weeks.
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Light winds on Thursday threaten Ellen MacArthur's round-the-world record  challenge.