South Africa Ends Phelps Medal Quest
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South Africa ruined Michael Phelps's  dream of winning a record eight gold medals at the Athens  Olympics with a stunning victory in the men's 4x100 meters  freestyle final on Sunday.
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Michael Phelps led the United States to  a narrow victory in the men's 4x200 meters freestyle relay at  the Athens Olympics Tuesday to collect his third gold medal in  four days.
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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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American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Tuesday in the 200-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 1:54.04.
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Michael Phelps, who thrilled packed  crowds for a week with his record-breaking feats in the pool,  bowed out in true style on the penultimate evening of the  Athens Olympic swimming competition.
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Michael Phelps will not now feature in the final race of the Olympic swimming competition on Saturday but he could still get a record eighth medal at the Athens Games.
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American Michael Phelps won the gold medal Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time of 51.25 seconds.
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Michael Phelps pulled out of the  400 meter individual medley at the short course world swimming  championships with a sore back Friday.
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Michael Phelps ended his magnificent Olympics with a magnanimous gesture. He matched Mark Spitz's record of four individual gold medals in the pool, then gave up a coveted spot on the 400-meter medley relay team to Ian Crocker &#151; whom Phelps had just beaten.
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Michael Phelps wins the gold Friday in the 100-meter butterfly with an Olympic-record time, his fifth gold medal of the Athens Games.
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ATHENS - The Australian women and American men ended the swimming competition at the Athens 2004 Olympics Games in style Saturday, both breaking world records in the 4x100 meter medley relays.
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ATHENS What looked suspiciously like an Olympic dual meet between Australia and the United States on opening night took a flip turn for the international on Sunday, as swimmers from Japan and, much more surprisingly, France and South Africa ended the ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The last battle of the Athens Summer Olympics is over. The dispute over who won the men&#39;s all-around gymnastics Gold Medal has been resolved, at least officially.
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ATHENS, Greece - American Michael Phelps edged teammate Ian Crocker for Olympic gold in the 100-meter butterfly Friday night, tying Mark Spitz's 32-year-old record for most individual swimming medals in one games - four. Phelps has five gold medals and two bronze, with one day left in the swimming competition...
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The United States outtouched Australia to win the men&#39;s 800-meter freestyle relay after Michael Phelps withdrew from the World Short Course Championships because of a back injury Friday night.
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Michael Phelps, his first gold medal  safely gathered in, eased through the next phase of his  monumental Olympic challenge in the heats of the 200 meters  freestyle Sunday but the immensity of the task ahead was clear.
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Michael Phelps won his second and third  Olympic golds for the United States on Tuesday, setting a new  Games record in the 200-meters butterfly before leading a 4 x  200 freestyle cliffhanger just over an hour later.