Phelps' Quest to Win 8 Gold Medals Ends
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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps surely didn't bargain for this. His quest to win eight gold medals is over, doomed by America's worst showing in the 400-meter freestyle relay...
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American swimmer Michael Phelps added a  fourth Olympic gold at the Athens Games Thursday with a  comfortable victory in the 200 meters medley that kept him on  course for a record eight medals.
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Michael Phelps, seeking his sixth medal of the Athens Olympics, advances in the 200-meter individual medley Wednesday with a conservative swim.
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American Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal of the Olympics in the 200-meter individual medley Thursday night, leading the entire race. Phelps finished in an Olympic-record time of 1 minute, 57.14 seconds, lowering his own mark of 1:58.52 set in the semifinals one night earlier.
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ATHENS, Greece - Mark Spitz can rest easy. The best Michael Phelps can do is win seven gold medals at these Olympics...
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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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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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ATHENS, Greece - Michael Phelps, denied in his bid to win seven gold medals, picked up his second victory of the Athens Games by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night in Olympic-record time. Phelps fell just short of his own world record, holding off Takashi Yamamoto to win in 1 minute, 54.01 seconds...
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Michael Phelps won his fifth gold medal  at the Athens Olympics Friday to claim a place alongside Mark  Spitz as one of the greatest swimmers in Olympic history.
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As of Saturday, the end of the swimming competitions, he had eight medals: Six gold and two bronze. In comparison, Canada has won two silver and a bronze.
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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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ATHENS, Greece - The United States won the men's 400-meter medley relay in world-record time Saturday night, giving Michael Phelps his record eighth medal of the Athens Olympics without him getting into the pool. Aaron Peirsol, Brendan Hansen, Ian Crocker and Jason Lezak won in 3 minutes, 30.68 seconds, lowering the old mark of 3:31.54 set by the Americans at last year's world championships in Barcelona, Spain...
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Michael Phelps collected his fifth gold medal of the Games with victory in the men&#39;s 100 metres butterfly today.
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ATHENS, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- American teenager Michael Phelps, whose dream of winning a record-equalling seven gold medals was shattered on Monday, finally captured his second gold from the men&#39;s 200 meters butterfly at the 28th Olympic Games here on ...
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal at the Olympic Games in the men&#39;s 200m individual medley here on Thursday.
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ATHENS - American swimmer Michael Phelps collected two more gold medals Tuesday, but even he knew he wasn&#39;t the story of the day from the Summer Olympics in Athens.
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Six-time gold medalist Michael Phelps probably spoke for millions of Olympic-saturated television viewers Sunday during his umpteenth and final NBC interview in Athens. "I just want to go home and sleep," Phelps said, a mission he could have begun early if he had NBC's last Olympic broadcast to sedate him.