American Michael Phelps has tied Mark Spitz's record of seven gold medals at a single Olympic Games after winning the men's 100-metre butterfly by the narrowest of margins on Saturday in Beijing. ...full story at cbcnews
from cbcnews on Sat, Aug 16 2008
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