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Kelli Anderson: Dana Vollmer moving past health problems, breaking out in...
When Dana Vollmer was a kid growing up in Granbury, TX, her club coach gave her and her fellow swimmers a sheet of paper with a choice: like to win or hate to get beat. "I always circled 'hate to get...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps-Lochte set stage for story-filled swimming trials
The most pressing question looming over the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials was answered at about 2 p.m. Central Time on Sunday when 14-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps tweeted pictures of...
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Kelli Anderson: Lochte makes statement with win in 400 IM -- but so does Phelps
OMAHA, Neb. -- Ryan Lochte had insisted for months that 2012 was "my time." On the opening night of the Olympic Swimming Trials at the CenturyLink Center, he made a convincing case by beating rival...
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Kelli Anderson: Vollmer, Hansen put 2008 heartbreak behind them with trials wins
OMAHA, Neb. -- The CenturyLink Center, a comfortable modern basketball arena morphed into a temporary natatorium for the 2008 and 2012 Olympic swimming trials, doesn't look like a house of horrors. But...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps-Lochte was just another instant classic
OMAHA, Neb. -- An instant classic. That's what the public address announcer told the 12,600 roaring spectators in Omaha's CenturyLink Center they were witnessing Wednesday night in the men's 200...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps, Schmitt trade laughs, support, Olympic trials victories
OMAHA, Neb. -- Michael Phelps was desperate for a morning off. So Wednesday night he scratched the 100-meter freestyle preliminaries and slept in. After practice Thursday morning he and North Baltimore...
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Kelli Anderson: Four years after historic relay, Lezak searching for next medal
OMAHA, Neb. -- Jason Lezak needed a little help. The man who rescued Michael Phelps's bid for eight gold medals in Beijing four years ago with that impossible, come-from-waaay-behind,...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps wins again, but Lochte has more impressive night at...
OMAHA -- It may have been Michael Phelps's 27th birthday, but it was the sellout crowd of 14,335 at Omaha's CenturyLink Center that got a treat on Saturday. In another head-to-head race with Ryan...
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Kelli Anderson: Franklin poised to make history in London, enjoy British culture
OMAHA, Neb -- Every month the Anglophile Club at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Co, calls to order 30 teenaged girls and a faculty advisor. The students' mission? To indulge their obsession with...
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Kelli Anderson: From surprises to busts, the week that was at U.S. swimming...
OMAHA, Neb. -- As the Clash's "London Calling" blares across the temporary pool in Omaha's CenturyLink Center to close the 2012 Olympic Swimming Trials, let's review what transpired here this week:
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Kelli Anderson: Men's swimming preview
Just like four years ago in Beijing, Michael Phelps will dominate the swimming news coming out of London. But this time he'll have a co-star in Ryan Lochte, who beat Phelps in the 400-meter individual...
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Kelli Anderson: Women's swimming preview
Unlike the men's edition, the women's swimming competition in London won't be dominated by just a handful of names. Yes, 17-year-old Missy Franklin will be the first American female to swim seven...
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Kelli Anderson: First Phelps-Lochte clash perfect way to start eight days in...
When U.S. swim team assistant coach Dave Marsh saw Michael Phelps in a hotel elevator at the team's training camp in Knoxville earlier this month, he thanked the 14-time Olympic gold medalist for...
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Kelli Anderson: Bittersweet London Olympics cement magical career for Coughlin
It can't be easy, watching from the stands as other swimmers put the finishing touch on your Olympic career. But that was the role Natalie Coughlin had to play Saturday night after she was left off the...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps triumphantly makes history after shock and disappointment
LONDON -- About 20 meters from the finish of the men's 4x200 free relay, U.S. anchor Michael Phelps felt a smile break across his face. In all the races he had won by a wide margin in his long career,...
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Kelli Anderson: Adrian stuns in 100 free to highlight big day for U.S. in pool
LONDON -- Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps were supposed to be focusing on their looming 200 IM semifinal heat, but they couldn't pull their eyes from a race on the ready room TV. Teammate Nathan Adrian,...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps beats Lochte as swimming's best rivalry comes to an end
They were in the ready room, together for the last time. Just days from retirement, Michael Phelps had been checking things off his aquatic to-do list, saying as he entered the room for each session,...
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Kelli Anderson: Phelps wraps career while Franklin, Ledecky show bright future
LONDON -- You'd think Michael Phelps would have this routine down by now. After listening to the Star Spangled Banner from atop an Olympic podium for the 17th time in the last eight years, he made a...
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Kelli Anderson: U.S. women must get through Australia before taking a shot at...
LONDON -- Lauren Jackson is about as decorated as a basketball player can get. Among her achievements she can count three WNBA MVP awards, one Defensive Player of the Award, two WNBA titles, and a...
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Kelli Anderson: After being down at the half, U.S. storms back to hand...
LONDON -- There was no need to panic, really. The U.S. women's basketball team had been in close Olympic matches before, and it had been down at the half before. It might take a little research to...
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