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Phelps beaten by 21-year-old in 100 fly

But the only person whose words carry weight in the matter said it's not happening. Schooling has long cited Phelps as his idol - in 2008, Schooling's parents...

Phelps, Manuel post swimming milestones

Manual said, though, she does not want to just be known as the "black swimmer" and hopes more African-Americans will follow in her footsteps. The 20-year-old ...

Rio Olympics 2016: Phelps gives `cupping` a boost in China

There are also several other finals set for the night session, including the women's 200-meter breaststroke, men's 200-meter backstroke and women's 100-meter fr...

Lionel Messi Returns To Argentina Team

Argentina play qualifiers against Uruguay and Venezeula at the beginning of September. Argentina travel to Venezuela for the next qualifier five days later. M...

Brandon Crawford Makes History With 7-Hit Game In Giants' Crazy Win

The San Francisco Giants look to leave South Florida with a win against the Miami Marlins. With Bochy watching from a local Miami hospital, with the fan base ...

Chipping Campden's Gotrel wins gold medal in men's eight at Rio Olympics

Women's rowing teams, from top, Romania, United States and Britain sit in their boats moments after competing in the women's eight event at Lagoa in Rio de Jane...

Delight for Cambridge diver who's partnered Tom Daley to Olympic bronze

The pair, who only began their sporting partnership last October, produced a great final dive to bump the German pairing down to fourth and finish third behind ...

U.S. cyclist makes sure she's won gold before collapsing

Armstrong's win broke her own record as the oldest Olympic cycling champion, beating the record she set four years earlier in London. Armstrong clocked 44 m...

Armstrong, a CCC mainstay, ends career with 3rd straight time trial gold

It doesn't matter whether I go from America to South America, Asia or Europe. She had by six seconds - with a final time of 44:26.42. She was the famous for h...

Usain Bolt: I can't be sure my opponents aren't doping

I think it was the fact that I didn't get to compete on my trial and I was just coming off the back of an injury, I was a bit rusty", said Bolt . "The 100m ...

Sir Chris Hoy salutes 'unrivalled' British cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins

For pure and undiluted tension, this will take some beating in the days ahead. Wiggins, 36, claimed an eighth Olympic medal to move ahead of track cycling leg...

Broncos Beat Bears in Pre-Season

After all, it is preseason , so too much thought shouldn't be put into this embarrassing Bears defeat. The other was a split sack by Derek Wolfe and linebacke...

Mourinho: Rivals Don't Like To Talk About Winning EPL Title

In this moment as Manchester United football club, we can not speak differently. 'Many more think the same way as us but they are afraid to say it. They prefe...

U.S. men's basketball team wins its first real test at the Olympics

Irving added a total of 19 points in the game. The U.S. team won its first two games without breaking a sweat. Irving was a major factor for the Team USA vict...

American Gold Medalist Speaks Out About Police Brutality

Simone Biles and Aly Raisman stood side by side in Rio Olympic Arena, clutching each other while waiting for the inevitable coronation. But efforts to draw c...

CBC Announcer Confuses Ryan Lochte With Michael Phelps For Entire Race

While conventional wisdom says Rio will be his swan song, his friend and rival isn't buying it. Here, we pick out five things you didn't know about Schooling....

Yankees moving on from A-Rod; 2 players making MLB debuts

Judge followed up with a 446-foot home run to center field that flew over Monument Park. The crowd gave them loud ovations during their trots and again when t...

Not just soccer in Brazil: Other Olympic medals matter, too

Rafa Cabrera Bello, of Spain, left, pretends to push Bernd Wiesberger, of Austria, towards the water as Sergio Garcia, of Spain, right, look at a capybara cooli...

Rio Olympics: Lalita Babar in women's 3000m steeplechase final

On the other hand, previous national record holder Sudha Singh failed to qualify for the final after finishing ninth in the third heat with a timing of 9:43.29....

Japan's Kohei Uchimura wins gymnastics gold as American men falter

Verniaiev's score is 92.266 points. Max Whitlock scored 90.641 points to claim the bronze medal and ensure Britain's first podium finish in an Olympic all-aro...

Phelps finishes in three-way tie for second

Phelps was sixth at the turn and Schooling - nearly exactly a decade younger than the 31-year-old American -wouldn't let him pull off one of his patented comeba...

Ibtihaj Muhammad And The U.S. Women's Fencing Team Win Bronze

Rio de Janeiro - U.S. fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad came to the Rio Games determined to show the world that sports is a place where Muslim-American women can excel. ...

Simone Manuel, Penny Oleksiak tie for Olympic gold in 100m freestyle

In fact, there's a stereotype that black people don't swim at all. Simone Manuel celebrates winning gold in the women's 100-meter freestyle at the Rio 2016 Ol...

Happy tears for 3rd straight gold

With Armstrong's five-year-old son, Lucas, attending the race, she also joined a variety of Olympians competing this year as moms. "There was one on my coffee c...

Olympics-Britain's Rose moves ahead after fast start

A DESPERATE final hole birdie has seen Marcus Fraser retain a slender one shot lead at the halfway mark of the Olympic golf competition as some of the world's b...

NYPD identifies man who climbed Trump Tower

This story has been corrected to show Trump Tower is 58 stories tall, not 68, and to show Michael Ryan was Rogata's birth name, not his legal name. According...

Coronation complete as Biles wins all around gold

Biles led a U.S. 1-2 in the Rio Olympic Arena ahead of Aly Raisman with Russia's Aliya Mustafina taking her second straight Games all-around bronze. It's on...

Simone Manuel Hopes Her Win Will Help Bring About Racial Equality

On her second day of swimming, she swam all the way across a 15m pool. "I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case", the 19-year-old told th...

Messi confirms return to Argentina team

In a statement released on Friday, he wrote as per The Sun : "I love this country and this shirt too much". They had sacked coach Noel Sanvicente after langu...

Prince Fielder's career is over

Fielder, a 32-year-old slugger, is unable to come back after his second neck surgery. He was soon traded to the Rangers in exchange for Ian Kinsler. The left-...

Olympics-Rowing-Drysdale wins single sculls in photo finish

Czech Republic's Ondřej Synek finished in third place. Mahe Drysdale has delivered victory in the closest final in Olympic history and given Rowing New Zealan...

Daryl Homer wins silver in men's sabre

Speaking after the event, Homer admitted he was happy with second place, saying: "I'm elated". On the same night world champion Inna Deriglazova of Russian Fe...

Phelps gets Schooling from Singaporean

Singapore exploded in celebration on Saturday after homegrown swimming hero Joseph Schooling beat USA legend Michael Phelps in the 100m butterfly in Rio to wi...

Russian long jumper blocked from taking part in Olympics

The U.S. -based Klishina, 25, had been the sole athlete from Russia's track team to successfully appeal a ban placed on the entire team in November from competi...

Rio Olympics 2016: Joseph Schooling beats Michael Phelps in 100m butterfly

United States' Michael Phelps, left, congratulates Singapore's Joseph Schooling for his gold in the men's 100-meter butterfly final during the swimming compet...