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Lucian Freud painting breaks record
London :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
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Freud painting sold for $US33.64 million ($35.76m) at Christie's art auction in New York today, shattering the record for a piece by a living artist. The British painter's 1995 portrait of a nude woman sleeping on a sofa, Benefits Supervisor Sleeping...
Tags: Christie’s Auction House, living artists, supervisor sleeping, benefits supervisor, New York, freud painting, Lucian Freud, woman sleeping, world record, art sales
Liu off to winning start at Osaka Grand Prix
Ōsaka :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility World record holder Liu Xiang of China coasted to victory in the 110-meter hurdles on Saturday at the Osaka Grand Prix, his first outdoor race of the season. Running in rainy and cold conditions at Nagai Stadium, reigning Olympic gold medalist and world...
Tags: Liu Xiang, Osaka, grand prix, China, hurdler liu, osaka grand, world record, Japan
Athletics: Jamaican bolts in
Kingston :: Jamaica | about 1 year ago
Credibility Jamaica's Bolt, who was sent to the blocks three times in a race that saw two false starts, led from start to finish. American Wallace Spearmon, the world championships silver medallist, was second in 10.08s and Antiguan Daniel Bailey was third in 10.12s....
Tags: Jamaican Usain Bolt, world record, Asafa Powell, Jamaica International Invitational, Jamaican International Invitational, bolt ran, New York, Antiguan Daniel Bailey, definitely surprised, silver medallist
Chatterbox: David Blaine's completed stunt
Chicago :: IL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Blaine now plans to break the record for staying awake, which is currently set at 11 1/2 days. What do you think of Blaine's mastery of drawn-out, mundane feats? Devin Vaughn I take it as personal challenge to set the record for not caring...Danny Wenger...
Tags: David Blaine, world record, filled sphere, magician david, broadcast live, divers pulled, breaks world, breathing underwater, Chicago, blaine set
Kenya's unfit Terget to miss Beijing
Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 year ago
Credibility April 21: Kenya's former marathon world record holder Paul Tergat said on Monday that he would not compete at the Beijing Olympics due to a lack of fitness. "I have recently come back from training and I'm not fit enough for the Olympics," Tergat said.
Tags: Paul Tergat, Kenya, record holder, Beijing, marathon world, beijing olympic, holder paul, world record, Nairobi
Coventry sets world record
Manchester :: United Kingdom | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kirsty Coventry has set a world record in the women's 200-meter backstroke at the short-course swimming world championships. The Zimbabwean swimmer finished in 2 minutes, 0.91 seconds Friday. Elizabeth Simmonds of Britain also finished ahead of the previous...
Tags: Kirsty Coventry, world record
Italy's Federica Pellegrini sets 400-meter freestyle world record at European championships
Eindhoven :: Netherlands | about 1 year ago
Credibility Federica Pellegrini set a world record in the women's 400-meter freestyle Monday at the European swimming championships. The Italian, fifth in the world championships last year, won in 4 minutes, 1.53 seconds, easily beating the old world mark of
Tags: Federica Pellegrini, meter freestyle, pellegrini set, european swimming, world record, swimming championships
World's Tallest Man Struggles to Fit In
Kiev :: Ukraine | about 1 year ago
Credibility Ukraine (AP) -- Leonid Stadnik's phenomenal height has forced him to quit a job he loved, to stoop as he moves around his house and to spend most of his time in his tiny home village because he cannot fit in a car or bus. But Stadnik, who according
Tags: world record, Leonid Stadnik, Ukraine
Alain Bernard smashes his own 100-meter freestyle mark for second record in 2 days
Eindhoven :: Netherlands | about 1 year ago
Credibility Netherlands : Alain Bernard wasn't fully rested coming into the European swimming championships...The muscular Frenchman smashed the 100-meter freestyle record for the second time in as many days Saturday, clocking 47.50 seconds to win his first
Tags: Alain Bernard, AM Bernard, world record, meter freestyle, swimming championships, european swimming, world mark, France, bernard broke, metres world
Frenchman shatters freestyle swimming world record
Eindhoven :: Netherlands | about 1 year ago
Credibility Alain Bernard shattered the 100-meter freestyle world record Friday with a time of 47.60 seconds at the European swimming championships. In the first semifinal, Bernard took nearly a quarter of a second off the mark of 47.84 set by Pieter Van den
Tags: Alain Bernard, world record, freestyle world, swimming championships, european swimming, meter freestyle, 100m freestyle
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