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A few events to help you avoid the post-Phelpsian meltdown

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Monday, August 18, 2008

BEIJING -- OK, now what? Michael Phelps has hung up his goggles for the rest of these Olympic Games, which just might turn into the PGA Tour without Tiger Woods. Unless the USOC convinces Phelps to try modern pentathlon or subs him onto the U.S. basketball team in place of Tayshaun Prince, the show will go on without him. The question is whether anyone will care. One of the main draws of Week 2 in Beijing was supposed to be hurdler Liu Xiang, arguably the biggest sports star in China and the ...

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