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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps is almost a perfect sports hero for our time.
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The fingers are those of a tortured hero with a divided, almost schizoid psyche -- Jimmy, in the 1978 original, played by Harvey Keitel, and now Thom, played phenomenally well by Romain Duris.
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Captain Steven Gerrard was once more revelling in central midfield, and he almost set up Jermain Defoe with a precise lofted pass that the hat-trick hero of Friday's 4-0 win against Bulgaria fired well off target.
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Wye ABC, which has been running for almost two years, was founded by local boxing hero Williams, who won a Lonsdale belt outright as British champion between November 2003 and June 2005, and a team of dedicated volunteers.
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