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Missy Franklin ready to follow in Phelps' footsteps
Yahoo! Sports
Teenage US swim star Missy Franklin has said she is ready to follow in
Michael Phelps' golden footsteps after she collected four gold medals and
broke two world records on her Olympic debut in London. Over the eight-day
swim programme, the bubbly ...
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Meet Missy Franklin: The new face of American swimming
Salt Lake Tribune
Phelps is retiring, leaving Franklin as the face of not only American
women's swimming but U.S. swimming. She'll return for her senior year at
Regis Jesuit High and pick a college sometime soon while fending off
endorsers and agents promising millions to the ...
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Swimming: Franklin caps golden Games with fourth title
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Missy Franklin capped her first Olympics with a fourth
gold and a second world record in 24 hours on Saturday with a performance
that crowned the 17-year-old's arrival as America's new swimming queen. It
could also launch the bubbly ...
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Men's swimming: Phelps finishes amazing career in style with gold medal in
the ...
Columbus Dispatch
Unlike Woods — who kept a tally, like a to-do list, of the feats of his
golfing idol Jack Nicklaus — Phelps was looking to the future when he put
together the most ambitious swimming program in Olympics history. Before he
became the first swimmer to race in ...
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Olympic Swimming 2012: Michael Phelps Race-by-Race Review of Final Games
Bleacher Report
Michael Phelps came into the 2012 Olympic Games in London needing just
three overall medals to become the most decorated athlete in Olympic
history. Phelps had no problem whatsoever earning that record, and he ended
up doing so much more.
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Olympics-Swimming-Phelps quits the pool with unchallenged record
Reuters
LONDON Aug 4 (Reuters) - Flashing a lop-sided smile of satisfaction and
relief, Michael Phelps left the Olympic arena for the final time on
Saturday after finishing his competitive career with a scarcely credible 18
gold medals. The boy from Baltimore, who had ...
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With One Last Gold, Phelps Caps Career That Inspired a Generation
New York Times
It sounds ludicrous now, but when Phelps, now 27, began his journey toward
becoming the Tiger Woods of swimming, he had no clue what Mark Spitz had
done. Unlike Woods — who kept a tally, like a to-do list, that included
Jack Nicklaus's feats — Phelps ...
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Gold-medalist Michael Phelps leaves US swimming program in excellent hands
New York Daily News
But as this London swim meet ended Saturday night, Phelps was leaving his
sport in the best of hands, arms and legs. America is a swimming nation, a
land of backyard pools and natatoriums, of pushy parents, of ambitious
kids, nearly unlimited resources ...
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Olympics-Swimming-I did everything I wanted to do, says Phelps
Reuters
LONDON Aug 4 (Reuters) - Michael Phelps kept his word after swimming into
history with one last, immense Olympic appearance on Saturday. The greatest
Olympic swimmer, and to many the greatest athlete as well, called time on
his sensational career with ...
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Olympics-Swimming-US ready for life without Phelps
Reuters
LONDON Aug 4 (Reuters) - As Michael Phelps took a final bow closing out his
remarkable career with an 18th gold medal and a thundering ovation worthy
of his feats at the London Games on Saturday it was clear the sport would
miss him more than the ...
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