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OLYMPICS

Phelps' Winning Personality
Separates Him From Spitz

Golden-boy swimmers are only similar in the pool

Aug 14, 08 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Phelps has passed Mark Spitz's record number of career gold medals, and is dead set on eclipsing the seven golds Spitz won in Munich in 1972. But apart from their metal preferences the two men are very different people, observes the New York Times. The detached Spitz matched his... More »

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Michael Phelps • 2008 Beijing Olympics • swimming • gold medal • Olympic athletes • Mark Spitz

Olympics

 China Gymnasts Golden
 Amid Age Accusations

Second-place US thinks Chinese girls too young

Aug 13, 08 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - China’s women bested the defending champion US women to take their first gymnastics gold medal today, as the Americans stumbled and the younger, smaller Chinese gymasts won a comfortable lead. But the victory came amid continuing charges that the Chinese competitors—who average 4 foot 9 and 77 pounds—... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • gymnastics • gold medal

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 Phelps Makes History: 11 Golds 


Aug 12, 08 9:23 PM CDT
(AP) - Michael Phelps now has more gold medals than any athlete who's ever competed in the Olympics. The 23-year-old American swimmer won his fourth and fifth golds of the Beijing Games with world-record victories in the 200 butterfly and the 4x200 relay. He now has 11 gold medals in his career,... More »

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Michael Phelps • Team USA • 2008 Beijing Olympics • gold medal • USA Swimming

OLYMPICS

 Phelps Nails
 3rd Gold,
 New Record

Swimmer smashes 200-meter freestyle record, matches Spitz in career medals

Aug 12, 08 2:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Phelps racked a third gold medal today, this one in the 200-meter freestyle, and obliterated another world record in the process. His time of 1:42.96 seconds shaved nearly a full second off his previous best, reports the Baltimore Sun. The gold, his ninth overall, ties him with... More »

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Michael Phelps • 2008 Beijing Olympics • world record • swimming • gold medal

 US Freestyle Team
 Grabs Gold by a Fingertip

Phelps inches closer to eight gold medals

Aug 11, 08 3:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jason Lezak pulled ahead in the final moments of the 400-meter freestyle relay to win a gold for the US men’s swimming team and push Michael Phelps one step closer to a record eight golds, ESPN reports. Lezak, 32, swam the fastest leg in history—46.06 seconds—finishing... More »

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Michael Phelps • France • United States • swimming • gold medal

(Newser) - Michael Phelps won his first gold medal of the Summer Olympics with a decisive victory in the 400-meters individual medley, Reuters reports. Phelps, who has a chance to win a record 8 golds in the Games, smashed his own world record—it lasted less than a day—with a time... More »

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Michael Phelps • 2008 Beijing Olympics • gold medal • USA Swimming

 IOC Strips Gold From 
 2000 US Relay Team 

Move follows athlete's admission of doping

Aug 2, 08 6:50 AM CDT
(AP) - The International Olympic Committee today stripped gold medals from the US men's 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Olympics, in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew's admission that he was doping at the time. The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall... More »

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Olympic Games • International Olympic Committee • 2000 Sydney Olympics • gold medal • Antonio Pettigrew • Michael Johnson

 Chinese Athletes
 Destitute After
 Glory Days 

80% are jobless, injured, or impoverished

Jul 23, 08 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Zhao Yonghua was a Chinese national skiing champion and won several gold medals. But now, at 31, she is bedridden from diabetes, exacerbated by overtraining. With no hope of recovery or employment, the former star finally had to sell one of her gold medals to raise money for treatment. As... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • Chinese athletes • gold medal • injured

 How to Be an Olympic Athlete 

Pointers on what it takes to go for the gold

Jul 9, 08 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Before you clear a spot on the mantle for that gold medal, you may need a quick reality check: Forbes runs down the numbers behind the blood, sweat, and tears of an Olympic athlete's training.
  1. Training: 4 to 8 years to maximize lung capacity and heart strength
  2. Sessions: up
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sports • health • list • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • training • gold medal

City Rebuilds Flooded Gym
for Gymnast

US champion can't let anything distract her in Olympic trials

Jun 19, 08 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - When storms inundated Shawn Johnson's hometown of West Des Moines, they also left a foot of water in her gym. But the 16-year-old couldn't use that as an excuse to take a break from workouts: The reigning world champion gymnast was preparing for this week’s Olympic trials, the Houston ... More »

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Iowa • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • flooding • gymnastics • gymnast • Shawn Johnson • gold medal

US Sprinter Giving Back Gold Over Teammate's Doping

Michael Johnson 'betrayed' by Olympic relay-mate Pettigrew's cheating admission

Jun 3, 08 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Record-setting US sprinter Michael Johnson will give back one of his Olympic gold medals after Antonio Pettigrew, a teammate in the 1,600-meter relay during the 2000 Sydney Games, admitted to doping. Pettigrew's admission at a trial last month “shocked me like no other drug-related story,” Johnson writes... More »

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International Olympic Committee • 2000 Sydney Olympics • gold medal • Trevor Graham • Antonio Pettigrew • Michael Johnson

In China, All That Matters Is Gold

Beijing recruits foreign coaches, targets medal-rich sports in quest to win, win, win

Jun 1, 08 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - China wants to impress the world during this summer's Olympics, and not just by hosting a seamless Games. Determined to finish with more gold medals than any other nation, the country is bringing in foreign coaches like Igor Grinko, reports the New York Times. “Silver? It means nothing here;... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • sailing • swimming • coach • track and field • rowing • gold medal

Star Gymnast Attracts Fans and Sponsors

Coke, Adidas love 16-year-old gold
medal favorite

Mar 1, 08 7:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Corporate sponsors like Adidas and Coca-Cola are latching onto a tiny gymnast with a towering talent named Shawn Johnson, the Washington Post reports. The smiling 16-year-old shares "brand attributes" with Coca-Cola like "genuine" and "fun," one exec says. She is also the world's reigning gymnastics... More »

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Iowa • 2008 Beijing Olympics • athlete • gymnastics • gymnast • Shawn Johnson • gold medal

IOC Will Move Quickly to Strip Jones of Medals

100-meter gold may go to runner in another drug scandal

Oct 5, 07 2:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The International Olympic Committee announced today that it is ready to make a speedy move to strip Marion Jones of the three gold and two bronze medals she took home from the 2000 Sydney Games. Now that Jones has pled guilty, IOC vice-president Thomas Bach intends to "accelerate and... More »

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anabolic steroids • doping • track and field • Olympic Games • Marion Jones • BALCO • gold medal

Phelps Wins Fourth Gold, Third Record

"Michael is just out of reach." bronze medalist Laszlo Cseh of Hungary said.

Mar 29, 07 5:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Phelps won his fourth gold medal and his third world record at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne today, this time in the 200-meter individual medley. At  1:54.98, Phelps was .86 seconds under than the old record -- also his. More »

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sports • Michael Phelps • World Swimming Championships • Tara Kirk • Melbourne • swimming • gold medal

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