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Family of Fran Crippen weighs action

Updated: October 17, 2012, 3:01 PM ET
By Bonnie D. Ford | ESPN.com

PHILADELPHIA -- Attorneys for the parents of elite open-water swimmer Fran Crippen, who drowned two years ago during a race in the United Arab Emirates, are weighing legal action against the sport's international and national governing bodies.

A summons filed in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on Monday by Peter and Patricia Crippen, "individually and as Administrators of the Estate of Francis Crippen," states only that a personal injury case is being initiated and ...

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