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Wednesday the Yale men’s squash team defeated the Trinity College (Connecticut) Bantams 5-4, snapping Trinity’s 14-year-old winning streak. The Bantams had won 252 consecutive matches, picking up 13 consecutive College Squash Association National Championships along the way.
Trinity’s 252 straight victories is the longest winning streak in intercollegiate sports history.
Mauritania’s Hamza Labeid left the starting block early for his 50M Freestyle heat at last week’s World Championships. He realized his mistake in mid-air, resulting in a belly flop:
(I just spent the summer watching 8-and-under swimming, in which belly-flop starts are the norm, not the exception.)
Per international rules, Labeid got disqualified. That’s too bad. It was the only event Labeid qualified for, and only three Mauritanian swimmers qualified for the meet. (Eycub Leebeid finished 116th in the 50M Freestyle, last among those who weren’t disqualified or no-shows. Soukeina Abdellahi was a no-show for the Women’s 50M Freestyle.)
“False Start Leads To Great Belly Flop”—Cosby Sweaters/Yard Barker
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By Nicholas Gerlach
So far in the 2008 Olympiad Michael Phelps is 3 for 3 in his pursuit of an unprecendented 8 swimming Gold Medals. This would shatter the previous mark of 7 set by Indiana University swimmer Mark Spitz’s moustache at the 1972 Munich games. Phelps, who is…….Alright….I can’t do this anymore…I’m not Bob Costas…I can’t pretend that I care about the Olympics.
Somebody let me know when the Jamaican Bobsled team comes on.
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