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Incredible Phelps surpasses Spitz

August 17th, 2008 by admin

Incredible Phelps surpasses Spitz

Michael Phelps became a swimming immortal on Sunday as the US 4×100m medley relay team gave him his eighth gold medal.
Phelps
surpassed Mark Spitz’s achievement at the Munich Olympics in 1972 by
capping an astonishing performance over nine days of swimming with yet
another world record - his eighth of the meet - in his [...]

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Boxer Akhil Kumar storms into Olympics quarters

August 15th, 2008 by admin

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian boxer Akhil Kumar shocked Russian world champion Sergey Vodopyanov to storm into the quarterfinals of the Olympic bantamweight competition on Friday.
Kumar, who rallied well in the final two rounds, won a judges’ decision after the bout had ended 9-all on points to be one win away from a last four [...]

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