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Phelps withdraws from meet with sore neck
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 5 months ago
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He pulled out of today's preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Championships, saying he has a sore neck. Phelps said he awoke with a kink in his neck Thursday morning but that treatment allowed him to swim the 100-meter...
Tags: Michael Phelps, sore neck, world championship, world record, U.S, meter freestyler, phelps pulled, 100m freestyler
Swimming: Teen makes a splash
Montreal :: Canada | 5 months ago
Credibility The 15-year-old clocked 30.23s to eclipse the previous mark of 30.31s by Australia's Jade Edmistone in 2006. "This is just amazing," Reason said. "I'm speechless, incredible. My coach said I had to go out fast and get my head into the motion." The world...
Tags: Aussie Jade Edmistone, world record, Teenager Amanda Reason
Olympians win titles; Hoff finishes sixth
Indianapolis :: IN :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility Ryan Lochte held off hard-charging Tyler Clary to win the 400-meter individual medley at the U.S. national championships Tuesday night, leading a parade of Olympians who qualified for the world meet later this month. Lochte and Clary made it a two-man...
Tags: Michael Phelps, U.S, Aaron Peirsol, world record, Beijing, world championship, Indiana University Natatorium, beijing olympic, free final, Ben Hesen
Eurosport, UK & Ireland: Spaniard wipes Peirsol's record clean
Pescara :: Italy | 5 months ago
Credibility Spanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber broke the men's 100 metres backstroke world record here at the Mediterranean Games on Wednesday timing 52.38 seconds on the first leg of the 4x100m medley relay. The 23-year-old's time bettered the mark of 52.54sec...
Tags: Aschwin Wildeboer Faber, world record, Spain
British freediver blacks out in world record attempt
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility The British freediver Sara Campbell lost consciousness during an Atlantic attempt to set a world record. Campbell, 37, who holds the record for diving the farthest underwater and returning to the surface in one breath having reached a depth of 96 metres...
Tags: Sara Campbell, world record, record attempt
Bolt wins latest Powell duel
Kingston :: Jamaica | 5 months ago
Credibility Usain Bolt proved he is back on top form by beating rival Asafa Powell in the 100 metres final at the Jamaica National Championships. The sprinters are the fastest two men in the world, so there is extra anticipation when they race each other, and Bolt...
Tags: Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, world record, Jamaica National Championships
Steffen betters own 100m freestyle world mark
Berlin :: Germany | 5 months ago
Credibility Double Olympic champion Britta Steffen of Germany set a new world record for the women’s 100m freestyle here yesterday with a time of 52.56. That bettered the previous record of 52.85 which she set Thursday also at the German national meet.. On Friday,...
Tags: Britta Steffen, world record, Germany, 100m freestyle, previous record
Bolt set for showdown with rival Powell
Kingston :: Jamaica | 5 months ago
Credibility Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Usain Bolt will resume battle with his Jamaican rival Asafa Powell in front of a passionate home crowd yesterday in the Caribbean Island’s national championship. The pair eased through their heats on Friday...
Tags: Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, rival asafa, world record
Germany's Britta Steffen breaks freestyle record
Berlin :: Germany | 5 months ago
Credibility German swimmer Britta Steffen has set a world record of 52.85 seconds in the 100 meter freestyle at a meet in Berlin. The 25-year-old Steffen's record set Thursday was three-hundredths of a second better than the previous mark set by Australia's Lisbeth...
Tags: Britta Steffen, Swimming-German Steffen, metres freestyle, Sushaka Pratap, steffen breaks, world record
Wayne Rooney can rule the world, says Ronaldo
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
Credibility Ronaldo admits he should not have acted in the way he did on that fateful night in Gelsenkirchen, that Wayne Rooney can challenge him for the title of best player on the planet and that the England striker can lead his country to World Cup success next...
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, Madrid Manchester United, Real Madrid, world record
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