France's Camille Muffat won the women's 400m freestyle swimming gold at the Olympics here Sunday.
Muffat touched first ahead of America's Allison Schmitt with defending champion Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain taking bronze.



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France's Camille Muffat won the women's 400m freestyle swimming gold at the Olympics here Sunday.
Muffat touched first ahead of America's Allison Schmitt with defending champion Rebecca Adlington of Great Britain taking bronze.
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By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston. Hadfield became a social media rock star with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity" and a continuous stream of commentary on Twitter about his life in orbit. But living without gravity for five months has left him feeling dizzy, weak and prematurely aged. ...