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Michael Phelps ends career with 23rd Olympic gold medal as U.S. ...  Aug 14, 2016 ... He'll have to listen to stories of his father's legendary swimming. ... winning his 23rd and final gold medal as part of the U.S. men's medley relay Saturday night. ... the pool deck Saturday night to swim the third leg of the medley relay, Phelps had ..... Michael Phelps swims during the men's 100-meter butterfly...
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Team USA most Olympic medals | Newsday  Aug 19, 2016 ... In the 2016 Rio Games, Phelps won five gold medals and one silver at age 31. ... to the Olympics in 2008, the oldest U.S. Olympic swimmer (41) in history. ... He was 40 years old in his final Olympics. MARK ... 1968 Mexico City, 1972 Munich ... leg of the gold-medal winning 4x100-meter freestyle relay team,...
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Michael Phelps wins 23rd - and final - Olympic gold medal in the ...  Aug 14, 2016 ... Michael Phelps wins 23rd gold medal; New Olympic record in 3:27:95; He ... relay swim to give himself a final tally of 23 Olympic gold medals. ... Phelps produced a thunderous third leg of butterfly to restore his ... Men's 4x100 | Medley Relay .... Would have been nice for Phelps to win it - but he's got enough...
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Phelps Helps U.S. Men Win Relay Gold In Rio; Manuel Helps ... - NPR  Aug 13, 2016 ... Both the American men's and women's medley relay teams repeated their ... better than the 51.14 he clocked in last night's 100-meter butterfly final. ... The win brought Phelps his 23rd gold medal and his 28th Olympic medal overall. ... U.S. Swimming had hoped to close Rio's Summer Games with a bang,...
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CNN.com - Phelps wins gold medal number five - Aug 20, 2004  Aug 20, 2004 ... Michael Phelps has won a fifth gold to claim a place alongside Mark Spitz as ... not match that feat, he is likely to take his tally here to eight medals after ... Phelps earned the right to swim the butterfly leg after winning the 100m final on ... in the 4x100 freestyle relay, was a mere 0.04 seconds adrift in 51.29.
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Rio 2016: Australia's Kyle Chalmers wins Olympic gold in 100 ... - ABC  Aug 11, 2016 ... Kyle Chalmers wins gold in 100 metres freestyle ... and defending champion Nathan Adrian (47.85) of the US took bronze. ... the first Australian gold medallist in the blue riband event since 1968, ... Going in fastest and being beaten. ... Kyle Chalmers celebrates after he won the men's 100m freestyle final.
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Carl Lewis wins fourth consecutive long jump at 35 - Jul 29, 1996 ...  There, he met his goal of four gold medals, winning the long jump, the 100 ... By the time the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta rolled around, Lewis was 35 years old.
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List of multiple Olympic medalists - Wikipedia  The page lists various individuals who have won multiple Olympic medals at either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games. As of August 13, 2016, American swimmer Michael Phelps has won the most Olympic medals with 28 medals (23 gold, ... medals for more than one nation, for simplicity only the last nation he or she...
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The Top 8 Swimming Moments from the 1988 Seoul Olympics  Jul 29, 2016 ... Here are the top 8 moments from the last Olympics of the Cold War era, the ... In feeding his passion for swimming, he has developed ... Krisztina Egerszegi becomes the youngest swimmer to win gold in Olympic history. ... At the 100 it was a 3-way race between Egerszegi, Sirch, and another East German,...
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50 stunning Olympic moments: No8 Eric Liddell's 400 metres win ...  Jan 4, 2012 ... But Harold Abrahams, who in 1924 won the 100m gold medal  the ... In Stoke on Trent in July 1923, in a race run over a quarter of a mile, ... after discovering in January  not, as suggested in Chariots of Fire, ... a year after the Olympics, in June 1925, when he won the 100 yards, ..... Please try again later.
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Summer Sanders - Wikipedia  Summer Elisabeth Sanders (born October 13, 1972) is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic champion from 1992. ... Sanders was born in Roseville, California and attended Cavitt Junior High School (just ... 1992 Olympic Games: gold (200m butterfly), gold (4  100 m medley relay  preliminary heat), silver...
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The most viral moments of the 2016 Olympics - MSN.com  Nov 8, 2016 ... From sparking off memes to making fans angry, the 2016 Olympics has ... Later, after beating the South African swimmer, when asked about the ..... USA's Mary Decker (right) falls after tangling with Great Britain's Zola Budd at Los ...... Los Angeles 1984 as one of the favorites to win gold in the 3000 meters.
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Michael Phelps beaten in 100-meter butterfly at Rio Olympics - CBS ...  Aug 12, 2016 ... Michael Phelps beaten in 100-meter butterfly at Rio Olympics ... gold in the men's 100-meter butterfly final during the swimming competitions at...
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10 Inspirational Olympic Moments - ODDEE  Jul 30, 2012 ... Anyone could win a gold medal, but it takes a truly special super-Olympian to perform these heroic feats. ... Wilma Rudolph  Overcomes Polio, Wins 3 Gold Medals ... In 1960, she made it to the Summer Olympics in Rome. ... But in the last leg of the race, Mills surprised everyone with an incredible sprint,...
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Mark Spitz - Wikipedia  Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer, nine-time Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in seven events. He won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, an .... However, he won only two team golds: the 4100-meter freestyle relay in...
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washingtonpost.com: Notable U.S. Swimmers: Past and Present  Won three gold medals in the 1972 Olympics in the 100m and 200m ... He was one of only six U.S. Olympic male swimmers to compete on three Olympic teams. ... He is the current American record holder in the 100 and 200 freestyle-both yards ... to swimming and in 1919 only public opinion prevented her from being jailed...
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The Father of Surfing wins another Olympic gold - Swimming ...  The Hawaii born, Duke Kahanamoku had won an Olympic gold medal for the first ... not only did he take his second 100 meters freestyle Olympic gold medal, but also ... Olympic medal in the men's 4x200m relay in Antwerp 1920 Olympic Games. ... included two more silver medals from Stockholm in 1912 and Paris in 1924.
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Steve Redgrave - Wikipedia  Sir Steven "Steve" Geoffrey Redgrave CBE DL (born on 23 March 1962) is a retired British rower who won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to ... As of 2016 he is the fourth most decorated British Olympian after Sir Chris ... In 2000, he won his fifth consecutive Olympic Gold Medal and retired from the...
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Jesse Owens - Wikipedia  James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens (September 12, 1913  March 31, 1980) was an American ... They remained married until his death in 1980. ... On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4  100 m sprint relay .... He argued that the Olympic ideal was supposed to be observed as a time-out from war and that it...
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Cal Swimmers Bring Home Six More Gold Medals - CalBears.com ...  Aug 13, 2016 ... Cal swimmers have now won at least one medal in every Olympic Games ... The 20 medals ranks second all-time in the Cal ranks behind only the 23 ... Jahvid Best , the first retired NFL player to compete in track & field in the...
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ESPN.com: Swimming's golden boy  Spitz, the only athlete to win seven gold medals in a single Olympiad, was ... After winning five Olympic gold medals in four days, he said, "No, this isn't fun, not ... Spitz considered dropping out of the 100-meter freestyle because, fearing ... So Spitz swam. ... Spitz won in 51.22, knocking .25 seconds off his own world record.