Year: 2014
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Eamon Sullivan caps pool comeback with Glasgow Commonwealth Games berth
Read ABC The closest Eamon Sullivan had come to the Australian swimming team in the last two years was as their host at his Perth restaurant in January. No wonder he was surprised he had booked a Glasgow Commonwealth Games berth at the national titles in Brisbane on Sunday night. And it seems “Stilnox Six”…
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Glasgow 2014: Hannah Miley eyes five Commonwealth Games events
Read BBC Hannah Miley will attempt to record the times she needs to qualify for a further two Commonwealth Games events at next week’s British Championships. Miley has won five titles at the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships at Tollcross in Glasgow. But she did not post the 400m freestyle and 200m breaststroke marks needed…
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Cate Campbell wins 100 freestyle, but sister Bronte’s swim
Read The Age Cate Campbell won the 100-metre freestyle at the Commonwealth Games selection trials at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre on Saturday night in a blistering time of 52.68 seconds, but the world champion’s night was made special by the performance of her sister Bronte, who pushed her to the limit in a race that…
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Hackett: ‘As my life fell apart, I tried to hold it together with drugs’
Read Herald Sun Twelve months before Grant Hackett’s life unravelled at Melbourne’s Crown casino complex on the evening of February 21, the Olympic champion knew he was coming unstuck. Hackett’s now infamous night at the Crown, during which he was photographed by casino patrons wandering in the foyer after midnight searching for his young son…
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Rocket science fan McEvoy stops Missile
Read and watch video here on 9MSN It wasn’t quite revenge of the nerds in the men’s 100m freestyle final at the national swimming titles in Brisbane. But academically gifted, socially awkward students across the country would have been forgiven for unleashing a rare triumphant air punch when 19-year-old physics fanatic Cameron McEvoy upset dual…
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15 Divers Took Turns Swimming With Dying Tiger Shark To Save Its Life
See Sunny Skyz A dying tiger shark off Australia was nursed back to life by divers who took turns swimming with the shark for one and a half hours in an effort to keep it upright and to get oxygen into its gills. Just as the conservationists were about to give up, the shark kicked,…
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Eamon Sullivan not ready to be written off yet
Read The Age Eamon Sullivan cringes a bit when he sees stories published about him nowadays. It is not so much because of the many injuries that have marred his career or out-of-pool controversies in which he was involved but more because of a simple word that often precedes his name. ”I keep seeing ‘veteran’…
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Thane Williams and Jonno Proudfoot complete 459 km in 24 days
Read The Citizen South African swimming duo Thane Williams and Jonno Proudfoot have completed a 459km swim in 24 days, their spokespeople said on Friday. The two swam from Mozambique to Madagascar. “This is an incredible feat and by no means ordinary,†they said in a statement. In one day Williams and Proudfoot swam the…
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UGA swimming/diving coach Jack Bauerle suspended after NCAA alleges academic violations
Read Savannah Now The University of Georgia announced Friday that swimming and diving coach Jack Bauerle was suspended from “all job-related responsibilities effective immediately†after receiving a notice of allegations of NCAA violations. The NCAA alleged in the notice issued Wednesday that Bauerle made “special arrangements†on Dec. 10, 2013, with a professor to add…