Her breaststroke&#39;s good as gold
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With no Australian reporters covering the World Swimming Championships, Ian Hanson has been responsible for reporting all the news from Indianapolis.
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Winning the 100 meters at the Olympics isn&#39;t simply a tradition carried on by generations of American women sprinters, it&#39;s an exercise in domination.
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For most of the Olympic women&#39;s triathlon yesterday morning on a winding, hot and hilly seaside course beside the Aegean Sea, it was Harrop who was out front on her own, pushing the pace and going for the gold.
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US elite triathlete Susan Williams became a media darling on Wednesday when she overcame high temperatures and a crash on the bike to win the bronze medal in the womenâs triathlon at the 2004 Olympic Games in the Athens municipality of Vouliagmeni.
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The Winnipeg native won her third gold medal of the Games on Wednesday, finishing first in the women&#39;s 100-metre freestyle event for visually impaired athletes in a time of one minute 1.74 seconds.
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She has the chance to banish the ghosts of last weekend&#39;s marathon failure and finally claim the Olympic medal she has sought for so long.
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Michael Phelps&#39;s chances of winning a record eight medals at the Athens Olympics were given a big boost on Thursday when US team officials said he might swim the heats of the 4x100 medley relay.
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Meseret Defar of Ethiopia took the women&#39;s Olympic 5,000 metres gold on Monday with a patient but perfectly judged display of distance running.
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More than five minutes would ultimately be required to determine that Veronica Campbell of Jamaica was the gold medalist of the womenâs 100 meters.
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The US swimming team was slow off the blocks but is heading for home at full speed propelled by Tuesday&#39;s dramatic relay victory, US women&#39;s head coach Mark Schubert said on Wednesday.
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Susan Williams of Springfield, Va., dominated the cycling phase of the Olympic women&#39;s triathlon and hung on for a bronze medal yesterday in Athens, Greece.
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One race, one world record, absolute joy for Michael Phelps.
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ATHENS -- She won her first Olympic gold medal in kayaking when she was 18, the youngest paddler to do so in Games history. Yesterday, at 42, Germany&#39;s golden girl Birgit Fischer won her eighth Olympic gold in the four-woman 500-metre kayak race.
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S very own golden girl, SHIRLEY ROBERTSON , above, skippered her sailing crew to Britain - s first top gong at the Olympics, which prompted a flurry of golds, most notably for Scots cyclist Chris Hoy.
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&quot;I can tell you I&#39;m very happy. Two gold medals in five days! I was relaxed in the race and let my opponents do the work.
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Great Britain&#39;s Kelly Holmes cannot afford to waste time in victory celebrations after winning Olympic gold in the women&#39;s 800m - she is running in the heats of the 1500 metres later today.
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The women&#39;s Olympic triathlon was expected to be a wide open race - but not so open that it could be won by a 34-year-old, ranked 41 in the world, who only took up the sport eight years ago to accompany her husband.