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  • August 2008

    • Bolt Claims 3rd Gold, Record

      Associated Press  |  Aug 22, 08 11:40 AM CDT

      Bolt Claims 3rd Gold, Record

      (AP) - Usain Bolt earned a triple-triple of sprint gold medals and world records today, an unprecedented Olympic feat. With his giant strides, he ran a lighting final bend that set anchor Asafa Powell on the way to a record 37.10 seconds in the 4x100 meters, chopping a massive .30 off the mark the United States had held for 16 years. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • gold medal  • world record  • Usain Bolt

    • Spitz Starts Life as Second-Greatest

      Wall Street Journal  |  Aug 21, 08 7:37 AM CDT

      Spitz Starts Life as Second-Greatest

      (Newser) - Outspoken and prickly in the best of times, Mark Spitz is slowly adjusting to being the second -greatest Olympian of all time, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mustering a little grace for the occasion, Spitz says he's relieved at the downgrade. "He's got the burden of inspiring the youth as they go forward," Spitz says. "That is a relief." More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • swimming  • Michael Phelps  • world record  • USA Swimming  • Olympians  • Mark Spitz

    • Phelps Pulls a Spitz on Sports Illustrated Cover

      New York Daily News  |  Aug 19, 08 1:10 PM CDT

      Phelps Pulls a Spitz on Sports Illustrated Cover

      (Newser) - Michael Phelps now has "the picture" to match his record Olympic medal haul, the New York Daily News reports. Sports Illustrated features a grinning, medal-clad, bare-chested Phelps on the cover of its issue out tomorrow, a shot that mimics the mag's iconic 1972 photo of Mark Spitz. "This is about Michael going forward," said an editor. "This is an image that our readers and others will remember." More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Michael Phelps  • world record  • Mark Spitz  • Sports Illustrated

    • How Phelps Saved the Games

      ESPN  |  Aug 18, 08 7:43 AM CDT

      How Phelps Saved the Games

      (Newser) - If the Chinese invented organized sports 6,000 years ago, writes Pat Forde on ESPN.com, then how appropriate that Michael Phelps came to Beijing to prove he was “the apotheosis of the athlete.” And America knows it. In a year when the Olympics had become “passe,” tens of millions of enthusiastic Americans rooted for Phelps in a way not seen since the Miracle on Ice. He “single-handedly saved the Olympics,” Forde writes. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Michael Phelps  • swimming  • gold medal  • world record  • USA Swimming  • Mark Spitz

    • Bolt: 'A Sprinting Prodigy From Another Planet'

      Kansas City Star  |  Aug 17, 08 7:28 AM CDT

      Bolt: 'A Sprinting Prodigy From Another Planet'

      (Newser) - Usain Bolt became the fastest man in the world, ever, yesterday—without even appearing to try. “His run was mind-boggling. Freakish. Revolutionary,” writes Joe Posnanski in the Kansas City Star . “He coasted his last seven strides, and all day he’d only eaten chicken nuggets, and his left shoe was untied.” Still, the Jamaican crossed the finish line a stunning .2 seconds before the silver-medalist. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • world record  • Usain Bolt  • 100 meter dash

    • Phelps Ties Spitz With 7 Golds

      Associated Press  |  Aug 15, 08 9:41 PM CDT

      Phelps Ties Spitz With 7 Golds

      (AP) - Michael Phelps beat Milorad Cavic of Serbia by the thinnest of margins to win the 100-meter butterfly yesterday, tying Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at a single Olympics. Phelps, seemingly destined for second at the finish, somehow touched the wall first, a scant .01 seconds ahead of Cavic. The Serb's coach filed a protest, but the judges ruled that the cameras didn't lie: Phelps won. More »

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

    • Are Swimmers or Technology Swamping Speed Records?

      New York Times  |  Aug 12, 08 6:34 AM CDT

      Are Swimmers or Technology Swamping Speed Records?

      (Newser) - Swimming world records are going under so fast at this Olympics that some officials are questioning what's going on, the New York Times writes. Ten records have fallen in Beijing so far—four in the space of 80 minutes yesterday—causing controversy over concerns that advances in swimsuit and pool technology might deserve as much credit as the athletes. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • swimming  • world record  • USA Swimming  • Speedo LZR Racer

    • Phelps Nails 3rd Gold, New Record

      Baltimore Sun  |  Aug 12, 08 2:58 AM CDT

      Phelps Nails 3rd Gold, New Record

      (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 Mark Spitz and three others as the winningest Olympians. More »

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

  • July 2008

    • Twins Born to 70-Year-Old

      Sun (UK)  |  Jul 7, 08 9:16 AM CDT

      Twins Born to 70-Year-Old

      (Newser) - A 70-year-old Indian grandmother of five has become the world’s oldest mom after giving birth to twins, the Sun reports. Omkari Panwar and her husband, a retired farmer, mortgaged their land, sold off their buffaloes, and took out loans to finance IVF treatment so they could produce a male heir. More »

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      India  • twins  • world record  • in vitro fertilization  • childbirth

  • June 2008

    • Coughlin Gives Up, Regains World Record

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jun 30, 08 8:26 PM CDT

      Coughlin Gives Up, Regains World Record

      (Newser) - The US Olympic swim trials in Omaha, Neb., today looked more like a final in Beijing, as Hayley McGregory took the 100-meter backstroke world record from Natalie Coughlin—who promptly took it back, the Los Angeles Times reports. McGregory swam it in 59.15 seconds, and Coughlin stroked it in 59.03 in the next heat. "I really didn't want her to have it for very long," Coughlin said. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • swimming  • world record  • USA Swimming  • record  • Olympic trials

    • Gay Is Fastest Man, Ever*

      ESPN  |  Jun 30, 08 2:10 PM CDT

      Gay Is Fastest Man, Ever*

      (Newser) - Tyson Gay might have used the Olympic trials yesterday to cover 100 meters faster than any human in history, but he is not the world record-holder because track, unlike any other sport, attaches asterisks to records, Jim Caple writes on ESPN.com. Strong tailwinds propelled Gay to victory, but his breathtaking time of 9.68 seconds would have been 9.86 without the wind. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • track and field  • world record  • running  • Olympic trials  • 100 meter dash  • Tyson Gay  • wind

    • Phelps, Hoff Smash Records in Omaha

      USA Today  |  Jun 30, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      Phelps, Hoff Smash Records in Omaha

      (Newser) - Records fell at the Olympic trials in Omaha yesterday as both Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff triumphed in the 400 IM, USA Today reports. Each swimmer had a personal motivation: Phelps took almost a second of his own world record, and Hoff recaptured the record from Stephanie Rice. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • Michael Phelps  • swimming  • world record  • Olympic trials  • Ryan Lochte

    • Jamaican Sets World Record in 100 Meters

      New York Times  |  Jun 1, 08 5:38 AM CDT

      Jamaican Sets World Record in 100 Meters

      (Newser) - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, a 200 meter specialist who only recently began running against elite competition at 100 meters, raced to a new world record of 9.72 seconds at the shorter distance last night in New York City's Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island. Cheered by a partisan crowd waving his nation's green and gold flag, Bolt beat reigning world champ Tyson Gay of the US out of the blocks and never let him get close. More »

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      New York City  • track and field  • world record  • Jamaica  • Usain Bolt  • 100 meter dash

  • April 2008

    • Party-Balloon Aeronaut Priest Missing in Brazil

      Associated Press  |  Apr 22, 08 3:55 AM CDT

      Party-Balloon Aeronaut Priest Missing in Brazil

      (Newser) - Rescuers in boats and helicopters are searching off the coast of Brazil for a priest who vanished while trying to set a world record for the longest flight with helium-filled party balloons, AP reports. The priest took off from the northeastern city of Paranagua in a chair with hundreds of balloons attached. He was last heard from 30 miles offshore. More »

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      Brazil  • world record  • priest  • hot air balloon

  • March 2008

    • New Suit Shakes Up Swim World

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 28, 08 12:08 PM CDT

      New Suit Shakes Up Swim World

      (Newser) - Swimmers in the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit have been smashing records since it made its debut six weeks ago, and some athletes are beginning to grumble that the high-tech swimming gear gives wearers an unfair advantage, the Los Angeles Times reports. Of the 14 world records to have fallen in the last month or so, 13 were broken by swimmers wearing the super-slick, ultra-form-fitting suit—designed with help from NASA. More »

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      2008 Beijing Olympics  • sports  • swimming  • world record  • Speedo  • Speedo LZR Racer

  • February 2008

    • RIP, Steve Fossett

      Associated Press  |  Feb 16, 08 5:44 AM CST

      RIP, Steve Fossett

      (Newser) - He vanished on a routine flight five months ago, and now daredevil Steve Fossett has been declared dead at the age of 63, the AP reports. The famous world record breaker was last seen flying a small plane over western Nevada where 15-20 private planes have disappeared since 1950. The first man to circle the world solo in a hot air balloon, Fossett aspired to "be the best in everything." More »

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      obituary  • pilot  • Richard Branson  • aviation  • world record  • Steve Fossett  • hot air balloon

  • September 2007

    • World's Oldest Man Is 112

      BBC  |  Sep 19, 07 1:24 PM CDT

      World's Oldest Man Is 112

      (Newser) - The world's oldest man celebrated his 112th birthday yesterday, the BBC reports. Japan's Tomoji Tanabe, born in 1895, attributes his longevity to sticking to a daily routine, drinking milk and avoiding alcohol and cigarettes. "I want to live indefinitely," he announced. "I don't want to die." More »

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      Japan  • Puerto Rico  • world record  • longevity  • oldest man

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