When that was resolved, CBOE became a public company and free agent last summer, just in time for the financial slump to scare off suitors.

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Trying to conserve her energy, she barely qualified for the final ("Definitely a little bit of a scare, " she said.) She didn't have enough time for a proper cool-down, so as her U.S. teammate Ryan Lochte swam to a fourth-place finish in the men's 200-meter freestyle, Franklin swam slow, lonely laps by herself in the adjacent diving well, trying to lower her heart rate and ready for her main event.

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Sunderland suddenly saw an unlikely point in sight, but survived another scare 13 minutes from time when Hleb's cross found substitute Theo Walcott at the far post only for the youngster to miss his kick horribly.

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