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CHAMALIERES, FRANCE, May 4. ALGERIAN freestyle sprint star Salim Iles came within a tenth of a second of upsetting world record-holder Pieter van den Hoogenband in the 100m freestyle finals tonight at the fifth day of the French Championships-World Championship Trials. Improving upon his pr of 49.70...

CHAMALIERES, FRANCE, May 3. FRANCK Esposito says: "Don't write me off just yet." The 30-year-old French record-holder in the 200 fly -- and European Champion in 1997 and '99 -- raced to a continent-leading 1:56.07 and won his specialty on the fourth day of the French Nationals-World Champion...

DOUBLE GOLD FOR THE FRENCH Istanbul, Turkey - Day 4 of the European Swimming Championships was a day of glory for France, a day that also saw three European records fall. Franck Esposito showed there's still some fight left in his 28-year-old body, as he came from behind to overtake the 1998 World C...

YANA WINS FOUR, SWEDES KEEP ROLLING AT EURO SHORT COURSE Lisbon, Portugal - Martina Moravcova went down in history in Lisbon Sunday as the last swimmer to win a European, or for that matter, any other international, swimming title of the 20th century, when she raced to a 1:56.28 victory in the 200m ...

VALENCIA, Spain. Dec. 17. Italy's Massi Rosolino won his fourth title, Martina Moravcova won her second and third, and Yana Klochkova won DM200,000 (US$90,400) on the final day of competition of the 2000 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Valencia, Spain. Rosolino, 22, added the 200...

By Phillip Whitten PARIS, Jan. 27. AUSTRALIA'S Michael Klim won two events as the Aussie men took five of the nine men's events contested on the first day of the two-day FINA World Cup X meet in Paris, France. This is the final stop on the 10-venue FINA World Cup tour for 2000-2001. MEN'...