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Green Polar Bears Puzzle Japan Zoo Visitors - Msnbc
a polar bear, its fur stained with algae, stands in its cage at higashiyama zoo in nagoya, central japan on saturday. three polar bears at the zoo changed their colors in july after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. three normally ...
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Canada Sweeps swimming Podium
after day 1, canada eighth in medal standings with four medals: three in swimming, one in cycling
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Baldwin swimming Advisories Lifted
the alabama department of public health on saturday lifted advisories against swimming in weeks bay at camp beckwith and mobile bay off volanta avenue in fairhope.
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Du Toit Wins Gold In Paralympic swimming - San Diego Union-tribune
beijing – natalie du toit won the 100-meter butterfly gold medal at the beijing paralympics on sunday, less than three weeks after her open-water olympic swim in which she finished 16th in a race beset by problems. the south african, who won five ...
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Green Polar Bears Puzzle Japan Zoo Visitors - Msnbc
a polar bear, its fur stained with algae, stands in its cage at higashiyama zoo in nagoya, central japan on saturday. three polar bears at the zoo changed their colors in july after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae. tokyo - green ...
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Du Toit Wins Gold In Paralympic swimming
natalie du toit won the 100-meter butterfly gold medal at the beijing paralympics on sunday, less than three weeks after her open-water olympic swim in which she finished 16th in a race beset by problems.
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Du Toit Back To Form With swimming Gold
beijing, china (ap) -- natalie du toit opened the beijing paralympics on sunday with a gold medal, which may help her forget a disappointing beijing olympics.
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swimming World Partners - Swiminfo
beijing, china, september 7. the swimming portion of the 2008 beijing paralympics got off to a splendid start with swimmers lighting a torch to the record book. in sum, 13 world records were set on the first day out of 16 events that featured gold ...
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Clinton Twp. Paralympian Swimmer Takes Silver - Detroit Free Press
angelelli, 40, is competing in her final paralympic games in beijing this month. a quadriplegic, angelelli's disability is the result of a 1983 swimming accident in which she broke her neck.
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Hop Brook swimming Area Closed Indefinitely
the u.s. army corps of engineers has temporarily closed the swimming area at hop brook lake on route 63 until further notice.
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Beijing Games Promise To Offer Swimmer Chance At Making swimming History
let's say the swimming world had no michael phelps. maybe he was scared of the water as a child or preferred lacrosse as a teen, or maybe he simply didn't exist at all. in any case, if there were no phelps, would ryan lochte be the "michael phelps" of these olympics?
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Paralympic Swimmer Sets Sights On Gold - Baltimore Sun
for 30 minutes they swim together, two strangers lapping the pool in adjacent lanes at the merritt athletic club in towson. finally, the older woman climbs out and slumps on the deck, in awe of the teenager still plugging away. "she just keeps going ...
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Roundup: 15 World Records Fall In Pool At Beijing Paralympics - Xinhua News Agency
beijing, sept. 7 (xinhua) -- the futuristic aquatic venue water cube witnessed the tumble of 15 swimming world records at the beijing paralympic games here on sunday. rudy garcia tolson, who refreshed the world record in 2 minutes 37.80 seconds at ...
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Final Weekend Proves Tough For swimming And Diving
the final weekend of dual meets proved to be a tough one for the ohio men's and women's swimming and diving teams.
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Green Polar Bears Puzzle Zoo Visitors
three normally white polar bears at higashiyama zoo and botanical gardens in central japan changed their color in july after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae.
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Gold Pedal Start For Britain - Haringey Independent
great britain enjoyed a tremendous opening day of the paralympic games with three cycling gold medals before also triumphing at the water cube. simon richardson, aileen mcglynn, with pilot rider ellen hunter, and darren kenny ensured the first three ...
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Grand'maison Leads Canadian Podium Sweep In Butterfly - Globe And Mail
beijing — valerie grand'maison got canada off to a flying start at the paralympics, leading a podium sweep in the 100-metre butterfly for the visually impaired on the opening day of competition. cyclist jean quevillon captured canada's first medal ...
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swimming Sa And Olympic Athletes Look To The Future
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Olympic Gold swimming
one of the most thrilling moments of the 2008 summer olympic games in beijing was the gold medal performance by swimming phenom michael phelps and his teammates, jason lezak, garrett weber-gale and cullen jones in the 4 x 100 freestyle relay.
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Algae-dyed Polar Bears Puzzle Japan Zoo Visitors - Abc News
a polar bear, its fur stained with algae, stands in its cage at higashiyama zoo in nagoya, central japan, saturday, sept. 6, 2008. three polar bears at the zoo changed their colors in july after swimming in a pond with an overgrowth of algae ...
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