Upbeat De Bruijn Fastest in 50 Freestyle Heats
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Inge de Bruijn, two of her three Olympic  titles already lost, showed her determination to cling on to  the last when she posted the fastest time in the 50 meters  freestyle heats in Athens on Friday.
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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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A FAST finish in the pool at Athens has delivered Australia&#39;s best swimming medal haul since the 1956 Melbourne Games. A heroic butterfly leg from Petria Thomas in the women&#39;s medley relay yesterday snared the team&#39;s seventh and final gold medal.
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ATHENS, Greece - Allyson Felix led three American women into the second round of the 200 meters on Monday, posting the fastest time of 22.39 seconds in the qualifying heats. Joining the 18-year-old Felix in the quarterfinals later Monday were U.S...
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SILVER FOR SA: Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands, centre, the gold medallist, with South Africa&#39;s Roland Schoeman, silver, left, and Australia&#39;s Ian Thorpe, who took the bronze, during the medal ceremony for the 100-metre freestyle at the ...
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INDIANAPOLIS: Michael Phelps made a winning return to the pool at the world short course championships today, capturing the 200m freestyle title and the first of a possible six gold medals.
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Japan's world record-holder Hiroyasu Shimizu finished in a dead heat with fierce rival Jeremy Wotherspoon of Canada in the opening men's 500m at the World Cup speed skating competition.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  - Tyson Gay splashed around a wet track to the second-fastest 200 meters of all time, clocking 19.62 seconds at the U.S. championships on Sunday.
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Michael Schumacher again proved his supremacy in the rain by splashing his way through to the fastest time in todayâs pre-qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
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Michael Schumacher again proved his supremacy in the rain by splashing his way through to the fastest time in the pre-qualifying session for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
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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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Dutchman Van der Garde achieved a good performance in Zandvoort last weekend. Heâs back in the Top 10!
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Now this was a duel in the pool. With Michael Phelps leading off Tuesday night, the United States bested its top rival in the most thrilling race of the Athens Games. Klete Keller held off Ian Thorpe and finished the Australians with a lunge for the wall that gave the Americans a gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle relay. The margin was only 13-hundredths of a second.
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Michael Phelps made a comfortable  return to the pool at the world short course swimming  championships Thursday, touching first in his preliminary heat  in the 200 meters freestyle.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Maurice Greene made a smooth start in his bid to defend his 100 meters Olympic title, running 10.18 seconds to win his first-round heat.
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American Troy Dumais is in contention for a diving medal after today&#39;s preliminaries in the men&#39;s three-meter springboard competition.
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Pieter van den Hoogenband won the men's  100 meters freestyle at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday to  become just the third man to win swimming's premier race on two  occasions.