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Bolt, Phelps cap era of excellence
AFP, Published on 20/12/2016
» LOS ANGELES - Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps towered over the 2016 Rio Games, capping an era of sustained excellence that promises to reverberate through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond.
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Rio Olympics football starts in empty stadium as doping storm rumbles
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The first sporting action of the 2016 Olympics started in a virtually empty stadium on Wednesday as the Russian doping scandal rumbled on.
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Rio scrutiny intense as Hosszu homes in on swimming history
AFP, Published on 11/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - While Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky hog the headlines in the Rio Olympics competition pool, Katinka Hosszu is working her way toward a slice of Olympic swimming history herself.
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Aussie dismay as swim gold rush nosedives
AFP, Published on 14/08/2016
» SYDNEY - Australians are seeking answers after their expensively-funded swimmers struggled to redeem themselves at the Rio Olympics after a disastrous showing in London four years ago.
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Baseball, surfing among five sports in for 2020 Olympics
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Baseball won a return to the Olympics as youth-friendly surfing, skateboarding, climbing, as well as karate, also got places among five sports approved for Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday.
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MLB row overshadows baseball's return for 2020
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - The head of world baseball promised to bring the stars of the US Major League to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after sharp questions about the sport's return to the Games programme.
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Games joy for flag-bearer Phelps
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Michael Phelps knows where he is in an Olympic pool and Rio's is no different.
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Russians get Olympic green light, Neymar launches Brazil quest
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Two Russian swimmers implicated in a bombshell report on state-sponsored doping were given the green light to compete at the Olympics on Thursday as football superstar Neymar prepared to kick-off Brazil's quest for football gold.
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Britain's Peaty breaks 100m breaststroke world record
AFP, Published on 07/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Britain's Adam Peaty launched his Rio Olympic campaign with a bang, clocking a world record 57.55sec in the heats of the 100m breaststroke on Saturday.
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Five facts about the second day of Rio swimming
AFP, Published on 07/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Five things to watch for on the second day of the Rio Olympic swimming competition on Sunday:
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