A report on Friday night from WBBH, an NBC television affiliate in Fort Myers, Fla., said Phelps will return to swimming with an eye toward competing at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three-paragraph story on the station's Web site was posted by news anchor Peter Busch, who is the son of Frank Busch, director of the U.S. national swim team.
"The greatest Olympian of all time isn't hanging up his swimsuit, after all," the report said, without citing any sources.
Phelps went on Twitter to downplay the report, but he didn't specifically deny it either.
"Why do I keep getting texts about coming back?" he wrote. "Do (people) really believe everything they hear or read? There are (too) many (people) in the world that think they have a 'story.'"...
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Mumbai: Actress Esha Deol feels Bollywood fashion of the 1960s and 1970s, when bell-bottoms and bell-sleeves were a rage in 'bright and colourful' apparel, should return. "That was a very happy phase when Zeenat Aman to my mother (Hema Malini) and everyone used to wear very bright and colourful dresses," said the 31-year-old actress at a party organised following a Blackberry fashion show here Friday. "Watching those movies, the bell-bottoms...
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New Delhi: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh is all set to return to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Singh met the BJP president Nitin Gadkari recently and sources say Singh may be reinducted in the party in January next year. His reinduction is seen as an effort by the party to bolster its presence in Uttar Pradesh. Singh had left the BJP in 2009 after the party rejected his...
07:53 AM, Dec 17, 2012
London: Singer George Michael got back to the stage after almost seven months as he performed during his Britain tour in Birmingham. The 49-year-old had to cancel his gigs in Vienna in December 2011, after he suffered pneumonia. However, he was back to crooning as he announced on stage "I'm finally back", reports thesun.co.uk. The singer started the show with his song Through and went on to sing others, including...
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New Delhi: If you do not count 'Singularity', 'Players' and 'Jodi Breakers', the two films Bipasha Basu pinned her hopes on to make a thumping comeback in the ball game, sank without a trace at the box office. So it is up to Vikram Bhatt and his band of merry men of 'Raaz 3' to help Basu make a comeback into the big league of Bollywood. And this time, there's...
03:12 PM, Aug 02, 2012
New Delhi: Jumping straight into the world's biggest sporting event after an eight-month long forced sabbatical is not how an athlete would have planned his comeback, but Somdev Devvarman says he is ready for the tough battle ahead in the London Olympics. Somdev has been out of action due to a shoulder surgery since the start of the season and started practicing only recently. Ideally, he could have played some...
04:45 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Barcelona: Fernando Alonso's emotional comeback win at the European Grand Prix last Sunday has finally set one driver apart from the pack in the most tightly contested Formula One season in history. Alonso steered his Ferrari from an 11th-place start to a dramatic victory at Valencia to become the first driver to win two races this year, opening up a 20-point gap over his nearest challenger, Red Bull's Mark Webber....
02:14 PM, Jun 28, 2012
Wichita: Rahil Gangjee nearly put himself out of the tournament with three bogeys in a row on the front nine but made a stunning comeback over the last 10 holes to squeeze inside the cut line at the Wichita Open, here. Gangjee carded one-under 70 with the help of four birdies on the back-nine and at four-under 138, he was placed tied 56. He just made the cut, which came...
11:26 AM, Jun 23, 2012
Cast: Karisma Kapoor, Rajneesh Duggal, Jimmy Shergill Director: Vikram Bhatt From matching Govinda's razor-sharp comic timing in so many David Dhawan entertainers, to delivering sincere, heartfelt performances in films like Fizaa and Zubeidaa, Karisma Kapoor has had no shortage of opportunities to show off her acting chops. But returning after a hiatus in director Vikram Bhatt's laughably silly 'Dangerous Ishq', the actress is limited to gritting her teeth and mouthing...
11:48 PM, May 11, 2012
Karisma Kapoor talks about her much awaited comeback with Vikram Bhatt's 'Dangerous Ishq'. ...
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Mumbai: Shilpa Shetty, who is returning to the big screen in a full-fledged role after four years with her delayed project 'The Desire', says it is not her comeback but her last in the near future. "I had taken a break and after this film I have decided that I won't do any movies because my priorities have changed and I want to concentrate on myself, travel, concentrate on my...
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Talk about ex-lovers coming together on screen. B'town is abuzz with the news that Aishwarya Rai Bachchan might act with ex-boyfriend Vivek Oberoi in Satish Kaushik's new film called 'Tansen'. The two were paired together in 'Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na' (2004), after which Ash and Vivek broke up.
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Joe said the singer was forced to commit to the added London concerts. ...
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Jackson wants a children's choir in exactly equal ethnic groups. ...
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Latest development left thousands of Jackson's fans disappointed. ...
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The 50-year-old revealed his plans at the 20,000-capacity O2 Arena in London. ...
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