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August 16, 2008

Phelps Ties Spitz for Golds at a Single Olympics
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US swimmer Michael Phelps wins 100-meter butterfly by one one-hundredth
of a second over Serbia's Milorad Cavic 
United States' Michael Phelps reacts after winning the gold medal during
the swimming competitions in the National Aquatics Center at the Beijing
2008 Olympics in Beijing, 16 Aug 2008U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps has won
his seventh gold medal at the
Beijing Games - in perhaps his closest race - to tie U.S. swimmer Mark
Spitz's record for gold medals at a single Olympics. Phelps won
the 100-meter butterfly Saturday by one one-hundredth of a second over
Serbia's Milorad Cavic. Phelps was in seventh place as he came to the
turn in the two-lap event. The race was so close the Serbian
swimmer lodged a protest with the Olympic committee. However, the
International Aquatics Federation overruled the appeal and ruled Phelps
was the winner. The race was the first victory of these games in which
Phelps has not set a world record. Rebecca Adlington of Britain
broke Janet Evans's 19-year-old world record on her way to winning the
800-meter freestyle race in eight minutes, 14.1 seconds. The
record had stood since August 20, 1989.Kirsty Coventry of
Zimbabwe set a world record of her own, winning gold in the women's
200-meter backstroke in two minutes, 5.24 seconds. Brazil's Cesar Cielo
Filho won the gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle race (21.30
seconds).In
athletics, Valeriy Borchin won the men's 20-kilometer walk gold medal
in one hour, 19 minutes one second. Ukraine's Oleksandr Petriv won the
men's 25-meter rapid fire pistol gold medal. American Vincent
Hancock won the men's skeet shooting gold medal. Chinese veteran Zhang
Ning won the women's singles badminton title. In rowing,
Bulgaria's Rumyana Neykova took gold in the single sculls. Olaf Tufte
of Norway won the men's singles sculls title. World champions Duncan
Free and Drew Ginn of Australia won the men's pairs gold medal.
Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu won the women's pairs rowing
gold medal. In the women's doubles sculls competition, twin
sisters Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell won the gold medal. David
Crawshay and Scott Brennan of Australia won the gold medal in men's
double sculls. In women's freestyle wrestling, Carol Huynh of Canada won
the gold in the 48-kilogram category. A
total of 29 gold medals will be awarded Saturday, including in track
cycling, fencing, weight lifting, tennis, shooting and sailing. The
men's 100-meters final is Saturday night at the Bird's Nest stadium
with American Tyson Gay battling world record holder Usain Bolt and
former world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica for the title of
world's fastest man. The women's tennis final was pushed back to
Sunday because of weather. The United States leads the medal total with
50 but China has more gold medals (27). 

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