VIDEO: Mark Spitz predicts Michael Phelps will win five gold medals at 2012 ... - 3News NZ


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VIDEO: Mark Spitz predicts Michael Phelps will win five gold medals at 2012 ...
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Nine-time Olympic champion Mark Spitz said on Sunday his fellow American Michael Phelps will win five or six gold medals in the pool at London 2012. Phelps has already won 14 gold medals - six at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and the other eight at ...
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Mitch Albom: What if today you were Tom Brady? - Detroit Free Press

Mitch Albom: What if today you were Tom Brady?
Detroit Free Press
Mark Spitz defined it after his Olympics. David Beckham certainly owned it internationally. You -- Tom Brady -- rule the roost this morning. You can grace the cover of GQ and Sports Illustrated with equal justification. You're as welcome at the Oscars ...

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Olympic legends to star in Bushy Park parkrun - Staines Guardian

Olympic legends to star in Bushy Park parkrun
Staines Guardian
Olympic legends Edwin Moses and Mark Spitz are set to line up on the start line at the Bushy Park parkrun on Saturday. Moses - who won Olympic gold medals in the 400 metres hurdles in 1976 and 1984 - and Spitz, who famously swam to seven gold medals in ...

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London 2012: Olympic legends talk of 'historic moment for capital' - The Sport Review


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London 2012: Olympic legends talk of 'historic moment for capital'
The Sport Review
Swimming legend Mark Spitz, who in 1972 became the first athlete to win seven gold medals at one Olympiad, said: “The Olympic Games is a coming together of the world to compete in friendly competition. I'm just jealous I never had the chance to compete ...

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A Dozen of the Best from 2011 - Locus Online

A Dozen of the Best from 2011
Locus Online
Whitehead's protagonist, whose name is given as Mark Spitz, is part of a zombie-clearing team, and through the course of three days the reader comes to know his back-story in intimate detail while also being treated to scary and darkly humorous zombie ...

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Colson Whitehead's monsters — Zone One (Interview) - Varsity


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Colson Whitehead's monsters — Zone One (Interview)
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To Mark Spitz, the dead were his neighbors, the people he saw every day, as he might on a subway. Midway through Colson Whitehead's latest novel, Zone One, Mark Spitz (not his real name, one given him by fellow survivors) is sweeping an office building ...

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Boris Johnson backs London as venue choice for 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards - ITCM

Boris Johnson backs London as venue choice for 2012 Laureus World Sports Awards
ITCM
... including Boris Becker, Sir Bobby Charlton, Nadia Comaneci, Sean Fitzpatrick, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Dame Kelly Holmes, Edwin Moses, Martina Navratilova, Sir Steve Redgrave, Mark Spitz and Daley Thompson.

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