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Clearly encouraged after breaking two world shortcourse records this month in Berlin, triple Olympic gold medallist Jones is talking about the 2012 London Games with fresh enthusiasm. "No one on the Australian team has ever done four Olympics it would...
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American Peter Marshall broke his own shortcourse 50m backstroke world record at the World Cup swimming meet here on Sunday. Marshall clocked 22.61secs to shave a fraction of a second off his previous record of 22.73 set in Stockholm earlier this month.
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Eamon Sullivan will compete at the AIS International meet in Canberra starting on Wednesday. Sullivan, who has been plagued by injury, is among a host of top-class swimmers set to race in the meet. AIS and Australian swim coach Shannon Rollason said...
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Tunisia's Ousamma Mellouli finally found form again on Saturday with two titles at the Singapore leg of the shortcourse World Cup, but a slew of expected world records failed to materialise. Sixteen new world marks were set in Berlin last weekend with...
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The final leg of the shortcourse swimming World Cup gets under way in Singapore on Saturday with expectations high that world records will fall. Sixteen new marks were set in Berlin last weekend with the vast majority achieved by athletes wearing the...
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Michelle Wie (US) 70-66-70-69; 277: Paula Creamer (US) 67-69-71-70; 278: Cristie Kerr (US) 69-70-67-72, Morgan Pressel (US) 72-68-71-67, Jiyai Shin 67-66-74-71; 281: Kin Song-hee 65-72-70-74, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 71-69-72-69; 283: M.J.
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Olympic gold medallist Leisel Jones finished the weekend with two new world records after adding 200m breaststroke success on Sunday to her 100m triumph at the shortcourse World Cup meet here. The 24-year-old, who won two golds and a silver in Beijing's...
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It was a tournament he left in ignominy in 1994 after being sent home for a doping offence and it seems unlikely he would risk missing out again...Having faced a touchline ban which could have sidelined him from part of next year's World Cup, he will...
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Out-of-shape swimming superstar Michael Phelps again struggled as an unprecedented 16 records were set at the World Cup short-course event in Berlin this weekend. Six new marks were set on Saturday and another 10 on Sunday, but the American could only...
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Michael Phelps admitted Saturday he is in poor form after another disappointing performance saw him finish fifth in the men's 200m butterfly final as world records tumbled here at the shortcourse World Cup meet. Phelps, who claimed eight gold medals at...
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