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Sports › Uchimura helps Japan to early lead at gymnastics worlds Kohei Uchimura’s left shoulder held up during team qualifying on Monday as the defending all-around champion helped Japan to the early lead in the standings… Read more on Japan Today Americans show swimming depth at shortcourse World Cup The US dominated the final session of the Singapore leg of the shortcourse swimming World Cup Sunday while South Africa’s Cameron…

Can Pisgah break streak against Tuscola? CANTON — Presidential elections, the Olympics, these are things that are supposed to go in four-year cycles. Read more on Asheville Citizen-Times This and That From This Weekend Column by John Lohn, Swimming World senior writer ORLANDO, Florida, October 18. THERE was a post last week following a Morning Swim Show appearance by Garrett Weber-Gale criticizing the sprint stan… Read more on Swimming World…

Defense Sec. Gates eyes retirement in 2011: report SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has indicated that he wants to step down by 2011, according to an interview published on Foreign Policy’s website Monday. Gates told the magazine that he wants to retire, this time for good, sometime in 2011. “I think that it would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” Gates is quoted…

Second half of the `Twilight’ finale `Breaking Dawn’ to hit theaters November 2012 LOS ANGELES – “Twilight” fans will get their final taste of the vampire series when the second half of the finale hits theaters at the end of 2012. “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2,” is scheduled for release Nov. 16, 2012, Summit Entertainment announced Tuesday. Read more on Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune European Swimming Championships…

Political Wisdom: The Race to 2012 A round-up of the day’s best political analysis. Read more on Wall Street Journal Blogs London 2012 Olympics: synchronised swimming guide Read Telegraph Sport’s guide to the synchronised swimming event at the London 2012 Olympics. Read more on Daily Telegraph

ATAC attacks Junior Olympics ATAC sent 43 swimmers to the Florida Swimming Long Course Junior Olympic Swimming Championships from July 15-18 in Orlando. Read more on Tallahassee Democrat Going against the flow Swimmer Achieng Ajulu-Bushell on leaving Kenya for Plymouth Read more on BBC News