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Michael Phelps 8 Gold Medals at Beijing Olympics

Michael Phelps born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore Maryland, is an American swimmer, fourteen times Olympic champion. Michael Phelps’s overwhelming dominance earned him nicknames such as The Baltimore Bullet.
In 2004 at the Olympics in Athens, Michael Phelps equaled the record of medals in one Olympics owned by gymnast [...]

 

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Usain Bolt is born on August 21, 1986 in Trelawny Parish and is a Jamaican athlete specialist in the sprint races and holder of world records for 100m (9 secs 69) and 200m (19 secs 30), these two records have been established at the Olympic Games in Beijing on 16 and 20 August 2008.

Usain Bolt becomes at 15 years old and 332 days the youngest World Junior champion in history of the 200 meters race, running the distance in a time of 20 seconds 61.

 

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This is history! News of the earthquake that hit Beijing in China this morning was first published not by CNN, nor the BBC, not even the United States Geological Survey but by Twitter!
Twitter has become faster to report breaking news than all other media and professional news services! I am truly amazed and impressed! This [...]