Multiple world records

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Short talk:

Thanks to AB, WX, AM, DS, CC, HY, ZX, CX, CS, G, EN, SR, MY, AT for your well-wishes.
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Something is wrong with this Olympics...

Perhaps, it's the first time that China is hosting the event...

Perhaps, it's started on the 08/08/08, 8pm...

Perhaps, it's the new age technology...

Perhaps, it's the participants themselves...

I wonder if you ever noticed... There seems to have much more world records broken in the Olympic Games, and new history set in the world of Olympics

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Olympics: China's Liu sets world record in 200m butterfly win
Posted: 14 August 2008 1055 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367892/1/.html

Liu clocked two minutes 04.18 seconds to smash Australian world champion Jessicah Schipper's world record by 1.22sec to capture gold. She beat home teammate Jiao Liuyang, who claimed the silver medal in 2:04.72, also under the previous world record time.

Wow!! First and second place break world records!!

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Olympics: Australia smash world record in womens 200m free relay win
Posted: 14 August 2008 1217 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367922/1/.html

The Australians set a blistering pace to hit the wall in seven minutes 44.31 seconds and wipe 5.78secs off the record of 7:50.09 held by the United States at last year's world championships in Melbourne. China took the silver medal in 7:45.93 ahead of the United States in 7:46.33.

This is is worst... All the top 3 team broke the world records!!

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Olympics: Liu sets 69kg weightlifting world record
Posted: 13 August 2008 2313 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367668/1/.html

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Olympics: Sullivan breaks 100m free record in tit-for-tat with Bernard
Posted: 13 August 2008 1158 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367528/1/.html

BEIJING: Australian Eamon Sullivan and French rival Alain Bernard swapped world records in a phenomenal showdown for sprinting supremacy in the Beijing Olympics 100 metres freestyle semi-finals on Wednesday.

Bernard triggered the sensational exchange when he broke Sullivan's world record of 47.24 seconds set in the lead-off swim of Monday's 4x100m freestyle relay final by four-hundredths of a second in 47.20.

Sullivan's reply was bold and immediate slicing a further 0.15 seconds off Bernard's minutes-old record to reduce the world mark to an incredible 47.05 seconds

Wah... 2 records broken for the same event!! Amazing!!

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Olympics: Phelps becomes greatest Olympian in history
Posted: 13 August 2008 1048 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367504/1/.html

BEIJING: Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian in history Wednesday, capturing the 10th and 11th gold medals of his Games career in world record-setting style.

Phelps moved to the summit of Olympic achievement with his triumph in the men's 200m butterfly.

His time of 1min 52.03 seconds shaved six-hundredths of a second off the world mark of 1:52.09 he set in winning the world title in Melbourne last year.

It was his fourth gold medal and fourth world record in Beijing's Water Cube, to go with six golds won in Athens four years ago.

An hour later he returned to lead the United States to victory in the 4x200m freestyle relay in 6:58.56 - crushing the previous world mark of 7:03.24 set by a US squad at the world championships in Melbourne last year.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SPEECHLESS

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Olympics: Peirsol breaks world record in 100m backstroke
Posted: 12 August 2008 1201 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/367106/1/.html

BEIJING: American Aaron Peirsol smashed his world record in defending his 100 metres backstroke Olympic crown in the final at the Beijing Games on Tuesday.

SMASH OWN WORLD RECORD!!

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Olympics: Vezzali makes history with third successive fencing gold
Posted: 11 August 2008 2337 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/366967/1/.html

BEIJING : Italy's Valentina Vezzali made Olympics history on Monday when she became the first fencer to win three successive individual titles with victory in the foil.

History maker!!!

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Olympics: US sets world record in men's 4x100 freestyle relay'
Posted: 11 August 2008 1242 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/366719/1/.html

BEIJING: The United States broke the world record in the men's 4x100-metres freestyle relay Monday, winning gold in 3min 08.24 to keep Michael Phelps's dream of eight Olympic gold medals alive.

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Olympics: Prapawadee sets Games 53kg record
Posted: 10 August 2008 1756 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/366488/1/.html

BEIJING: Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakon of Thailand on Sunday set a new Olympic record by heaving 126kg in the clean and jerk on the way to winning the women's 53kg weightlifting gold.

Another Weightlifting record.

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Olympics: Aussie Rice smashes record in taking medley gold
Posted: 10 August 2008 1137 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/366383/1/.html

BEIJING: Australian Stephanie Rice staged a daring smash and grab raid to claim the Olympic 400 metres individual medley gold medal in world record time at the Beijing Games on Sunday

And yet another swimming record.

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Olympics: China's Chen sets two weightlifting records
Posted: 09 August 2008 1251 hrs
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_sports/view/366130/1/.html

BEIJING: World champion Chen Xiexia of China on Saturday set two new Olympic records for the women's weightlifting 48kg class by lifting 117kg in the clean and jerk on the way to a total winning lift of 212kg on Saturday.

And yet another weightlifting records.
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Mostly are swimming and weightlifting records...

Hmmm....

Perhaps, it's the smog in Beijing that is the factor.