DUISBURG, Germany (AP) -- Eight-time Olympic champion Birgit Fischer says cardiac arrhythmia is threatening her attempt to come back from retirement and DUISBURG, Germany (AP) -- Eight-time Olympic ...

With her eight gold medals, kayak colossus Birgit Fischer is Germany's most successful ever Olympian, not to mention her breath-taking 27 world titles. At 42 years old, Fischer proved she was still at ...

Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Birgit Fischer has set her sights on a comeback in time for next year's London Olympics. The German kayaker, who turns 50 in February, says she wants a new challenge ...

It was a performance to make Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent look like novices. Twenty-four years after winning her first Olympic title, Birgit Fischer and her four-woman kayak crew raced to ...

German kayak racer Birgit Fischer can equal the record as the most successful woman athlete in the history of the Games on Saturday. German kayak racer Birgit Fischer can equal the record as the most ...

January 7 - German kayaking icon Birgit Fischer (pictured), who has won eight Olympic gold medals and an astonishing 28 World Championship titles, has targeted a comeback at London 2012 when she will ...

DUISBURG, Germany (AP) -- Birgit Fischer's personal doctor has stopped the 50-year-old eight-time Olympic champion's latest comeback attempt only one day before DUISBURG, Germany (AP) -- Birgit ...

Germany's 42-year-old kayaking legend Birgit Fischer may be finding it a little harder these days, but she still had what it took to win her eighth Olympic gold medal yesterday. Germany's four-person ...

There is an obvious reason I find Birgit Fischer's record such a source of interest. Look at the medals: gold in Moscow 1980, double gold in Seoul 1988, gold in Barcelona 1992, gold in Atlanta 1996, ...

German kayaker Birgit Fischer won her eighth gold medal, becoming the first woman to win Olympic medals 24 years apart. Fischer, 42, was part of the four-person kayak team that rallied in the second ...

(CNN)-- Birgit Fischer made her Olympic debut in Moscow at the age of 18 and was set to retire after the Sydney Games in 2000. But the German announced she was coming out of retirement in 2004 in time ...