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Sports Highlights: Suit Up for a Swimming Controversy

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Olympic great Michael Phelps lost his first major individual event in four years when Germany’s Paul Biederman smashed Phelps’ record by almost an entire second. The Takeaway’s sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has the details.

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The Phelps Effect

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Swim stars huge in U.S. media, ho-hum in China’s

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No Olympic medals yet for Canada

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Olympics update

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Highlights from Beijing

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Anchor Marco Werman gets the highlights so far from the Games in Beijing from Olympics expert David Wallichinsky.

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