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Double Swim Gold Medalist Ye, 16, Predicts Younger Champions
Businessweek
Franklin, from Colorado, has shunned the advances of sponsors looking to
unearth the next big U.S. swimming star after record 15-time gold medalist
Michael Phelps, 27, quits the sport following the London Games. Franklin's
been seeking career advice from ...
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Olympic Swimming 2012: Doping Accusations Against Ye Shiwen Are Entirely ...
Bleacher Report
On Saturday, the opening day of the Games, Ye set the Games' first new
swimming world record with an incredible gold-medal-winning time of four
minutes, 28.43 seconds in the 400-meter individual medley. Ye doubled her
hardware on Tuesday, winning ...
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Chinese teenage swimming phenom faces new doping questions
Fox News
And all anybody wants to know about Chinese teen swimming sensation Ye
Shiwen is whether she's doping. After shattering the world record in the
400 individual medley on the opening day of the pool competition at the
London Games, the 16-year-old ...
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Olympics-Swimming-Phelps back in pool after Obama's approval
Reuters
LONDON Aug 1 (Reuters) - After getting the presidential seal of approval
from Barack Obama, Michael Phelps was back in the Olympic pool on Wednesday
morning, looking to add to his record medal tally. Phelps won an
unprecedented 19th Olympic medal ...
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The Unfair Smear Campaign Against Chinese Swimming Sensation Ye Shiwen
Slate Magazine
On Tuesday, National Post sports columnist Bruce Arthur said Ye Shiwen's
achievements were "looming over this swim meet, and over these Olympics,
like a shadow from the past." That shadow was conjured by John Leonard,
executive director of the USA ...
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Swimming: Then I saw her race...now she's a Belieber
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Justin Bieber only had to see her race and now he's a
believer in American Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin. The 17-year-old, in
turn, only had to see his 'shout-out' on Twitter for the legs that powered
her to backstroke gold to go all ...
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Debate Over Chinese Swimmer Turns Testy in Asia
New York Times (blog)
Others have pointed to the Chinese swim program's long rap sheet of
previous drug offenses, and history shows that mind-boggling Olympic
performances are certainly worthy of some suspicion, or at least close
examination. A larger question in Asia, ...
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China Rallies Behind Its Swimming Prodigy
Wall Street Journal
Eyebrows arched in the swimming world when Ye set a world record Saturday
with 4:28.43 in the 400-meter race and followed it with an Olympic record
Monday with a time of 2:08.39 in the 200m medley. On Saturday her speed
during the last 50 meters even ...
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Swimming: Fastest men in water to battle it out
Reuters
The Australian will line up on the starting blocks at London's Aquatic
Centre on Wednesday as the favorite to win the men's 100 meters freestyle
final, the blue riband event of the swimming competition. Following his win
in last year's championships, ...
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Chinese doctor shifts doping focus to American swimming star Michael Phelps
Los Angeles Times
But the next move in the swim pool tat-for-tat war of words between the
United States and China was truly bizarre and strangely out of focus, as a
former Olympic doctor from China promptly decided to throw Michael Phelps
and his 15 gold medals under the ...
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