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MICHAEL Phelps broke the 100m butterfly world record Thursday, clocking 50.22sec to win the title at the USA Swimming World Championship trials.

At just 24 years old, swimmer Michael Phelps is already one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history, with 14 gold medals and two bronzes.

Michael Phelps touched the wall today, looked up at the scoreboard to find his time, then closed his eyes.

FOUR of Australia's top swimmers have grabbed international victories overnight as they build momentum for next month's world titles.

In his first competition since winning eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last summer, Michael Phelps came to the Charlotte Ultraswim meet in North Carolina well-rested and with some new style: he debuted a new straight-arm or "windmill" stroke technique for some of his freestyle events, a stroke that allows him to slice throw the water more ...

David LaFlamme's final official act of his brilliant high school swimming career was a handshake.

Aaron Peirsol can't remember the last time he lost in a final of the 100-meter backstroke.

So much history can be decided by fractions of a second in swimming. But never in the history of the sport has so much been at stake with so little time as there was today in the 100-meter butterfly.

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It was nearly a perfect sports moment. It was an early Sunday morning in August in Beijing, and primetime Saturday in America, when Michael Phelps stretched out his extraordinarily long torso out toward the ...

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When U.S. swimming sensation Michael Phelps beat Serbian competitor Milorad Cavic by an eyelash to capture gold in Beijing, it was 40-year-old "touchpad" technology that decided the outcome.

Like many teenagers, Tyler Cracraft of Urbandale dreams of being a famous athlete.

The year 2008 was the most successful for Kenyan swimming. Jason Dunford maintained his talismanic show as women finally broke through to global limelight.

The judges had a bird's-eye view of Michael Phelps beating Milorad Cavic to the wall by 0.01 seconds in the 100 butterfly final.

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Plaxico Burress is a metaphor for our muddled times, 2008 in human form, hero today, gone tomorrow.

Swimming great Michael Phelps, left, and sprinting sensation Usain Bolt used the Beijing Olympics as their career-defining moment.

Michael Phelps had just finished his work at the Water Cube, his place in history secure, when he walked up to his longtime coach.