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      <title>Web site swamped for Vancouver Games tickets (AP)</title>
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      <description>An overwhelming demand for Olympic tickets appears to have swamped the Web site for the Vancouver Games. Tickets were to go on sale Saturday morning, but ticket buyers could only get a message saying the link appears to be broken. More than 100,000 tickets to the 2010 Winter Games were to go on sale. Anyone attempting to call the 1-800 Olympic phone number for help was getting a busy signal.</description>
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      <title>Kramer wins 5,000 at World Cup (AP)</title>
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      <description>World champion Sven Kramer of the Netherlands cruised to victory in the 5,000 meters at the season-opening speedskating World Cup meet Saturday. Kramer covered the distance in 6 minutes, 14.69 seconds for his 24th career World Cup win. Havard Bokko of Norway was second in 6:17.17, and Bob de Jong of the Netherlands was third in 6:19.22.</description>
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      <title>Skater Joubert of France wins NHK Trophy (AP)</title>
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      <description>Brian Joubert of France won the NHK Trophy on Saturday, earning his first Grand Prix title of the season with a strong performance in the free skate. Joubert, who was first after the short program, landed a quadruple toe loop at the start of his routine to strengthen his lead and finished with 232.70 points for a 15-point margin over Johnny Weir of the United States.</description>
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      <title>Celski back on track 2 months after scary crash (AP)</title>
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      <description>J.R. Celski could hear his mother screaming. The 19-year-old rising star had crashed right in front of his parents during the U.S. short track speedskating championships Sept. 12, and the first few inches of his right skate blade sliced into his left leg near the knee. The blade cut through the muscle to the bone, spilling blood on the ice.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:06:02 PST</pubDate>
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      <title>Preliminary reports: 3 ND college students drowned (AP)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Authorities say preliminary autopsy results show drowning as the cause of death for three North Dakota college softball players found dead inside a sport utility vehicle that sunk in a rural farm pond. Stark County Sheriff Clarence Tuhy said Friday that two of the women&#39;s bodies were found in the SUV&#39;s rear cargo area and one was found in the middle of the vehicle.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:59:41 PST</pubDate>
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      <title>Keflezighi honored in San Diego (AP)</title>
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      <description>Five days after winning the New York City Marathon, Meb Keflezighi was back where it began for him. Keflezighi, who moved from his native Eritrea to San Diego when he was in the sixth grade, was honored Friday at the San Diego Hall of Champions for becoming the first U.S. man in 27 years to win the New York City Marathon.</description>
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      <title>Apolo Ohno seeking historic medals in Vancouver (AP)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Apolo Anton Ohno&#39;s heart and mind are squarely focused on spinning his high-speed magic around the short track rink at the Vancouver Games. Nearly eight years after his Olympic debut, the five-time medalist remains the enduring face of his wild and wooly sport and one of the world&#39;s best skaters.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[South Africa&#39;s Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya&#39;s gender tests. The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee said in a statement it was suspending the track organization immediately. The action comes after Athletics South Africa&#39;s attorneys sent a letter saying the decision by the committee a day earlier to...]]></description>
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      <title>America's Cup feud could be nearing end (AP)</title>
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      <title>CAS rejects Pechstein's plea to race this weekend (AP)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Claudia Pechstein&#39;s request to compete in speedskating World Cup races while she awaits a ruling on her appeal of a doping suspension. The five-time Olympic champion from Germany is appealing a two-year ban imposed by the International Skating Union for suspected blood doping.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Usain Bolt&#39;s coach will continue working with the Olympic champion and world record holder even though he is stepping down as Jamaica&#39;s national team coach after 22 years. Glen Mills told The Associated Press on Friday he felt it was time to resign, saying, &quot;There are a lot of coaches who are making their mark.&quot; Bolt set three world records last year at the Beijing Olympics and...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:32:51 PST</pubDate>
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      <title>Former Olympic skier Bogner to head Munich bid (AP)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Willy Bogner has been named head of Munich&#39;s bid for the 2018 Winter Olympics. The former two-time Olympian skier, who won the famed Wengen downhill as a 17-year-old, later became a movie maker and directed and filmed skiing scenes in four James Bond movies, as well as movies from several Winter Games.]]></description>
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