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...Footballers Mohamed Salah and Cristiano Ronaldo are fans, as are Michael Phelps and LeBron James – and Justin Bieber. So should we all sign up?...
...Beloved by Michael Phelps and Cristiano Ronaldo, hyperbaric oxygen therapy (£160) is Zajkowska’s favourite treatment....
...Four years ago she was a surprise inclusion as the youngest member of the US Olympic team and proceeded to beat the previous world record holder, Great Britain’s Rebecca Adlington, to take 800m freestyle...
...Rebecca Adlington is set to return to the pool on Monday for the women’s 200m freestyle, having enhanced her reputation as one of Britain’s most popular athletes by taking bronze in the 400m freestyle on...
...Minutes after American swimmer Rebecca Soni broke the world record to win a gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke on August 2, a bicycle courier delivered footage of the event from US broadcaster NBC’...
...Rebecca Adlington, warmest and most endearing of Britain’s modern Olympians, hinted at retirement after she had to settle for a bronze medal in the 800m freestyle....
...America’s Rebecca Soni took silver with 1.06.73, and Mirna Jukic of Austria took bronze, with 1.07.34. The US cavalry charge was led, inevitably, by Michael Phelps....
...You couldn’t sound or look more girl-next-door middle-England than Rebecca Adlington, pictured left....
...Another Aussie world record holder, Leisl Jones was also beaten, but by a rather larger margin, by Rebecca Soni of the US, who won the 200m breastroke in 2.20.22....
...Indeed, at the time of writing, the only thing keeping the US ahead of Britain’s gold medal tally was Michael Phelps....
...Rebecca Romero is favourite for the women’s pursuit....
...Britain’s Rebecca Adlington also smashed a 19-year-old world record to take gold in the women’s 800 freestyle....
...Katie Hoff of the US, who was expected to win at least a couple of golds, looked well on the way to assuaging her disappointment of only a bronze in the 400 individual medley the previous day before Rebecca...
...Former student, Carissa Phelps, who received her JD/MBA from Anderson last spring, describes the course as “one of the most real classes [she] took at business school”....
...The author, Rebecca Harding of Delta Economics, says: “Women leaving salaried employment typically have less financial and social capital and are less confident about using their contact networks for advantage...
...The company said on Friday it would pursue a two-way deal with Phelps Dodge, but was the subject of a hostile bid from Teck Cominco....
...This week’s $26bn take-over bid by Freeport McMoRan, the US copper producer, for Phelps Dodge, its larger rival, has pushed the total value of mining M&A deals in 2006 to about $113bn....
...Inco’s bid is supported by US miner Phelps Dodge, which ultimately wants to buy Falconbridge and Inco....
...Phelps and Inco continued to urge investors on Wednesday to support their bid....
...The bid was backed by Phelps Dodge, the Arizona-based copper producer. Inco said it would now turn its attention to an agreed deal with Phelps....
...Inco is recommending shareholders accept a friendly cash-and-shares offer worth about C$16bn (US$14.4bn) from Phelps Dodge of the US but analysts predict that a hostile all-cash offer of about the same value...
...Its hostile bid for Falconbridge was competing with a joint friendly offer from Inco of Canada and Phelps Dodge of the US. At several points, it looked like Xstrata was going to lose....
...The growth in output reflects the large amounts of money being invested by mining companies in the country, such as BHP Billiton of the UK, Phelps Dodge of the US, and Falconbridge and Teck Cominco of Canada...
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