Category: Gossip
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All cleaned up, Ian Thorpe returns to TV
Read The Daily Telegraph Fallen swimming champion Ian Thorpe has triumphantly emerged from the darkest months of his life. Australia’s most successful Olympian is out of rehabilitation and will attend the Commonwealth Games in Scotland in July. His manager is in negotiations with Channel Ten and European networks for commentating roles at the swimming. Ten…
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Male Swimmers Score Highly in Top 10 ‘Hottest’ Sports
Read Googleblog Good news for male swimmers. According to dating website, Victoria Milan, male swimmers score third highest in the hottest sports stars league table because of their fit bodies! In the survey of over 3,000 women, the body was ranked the number one attraction of sports stars, with 39% of women voting for a…
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Geoff Huegill and wife, Sara Hills, plead guilty to cocaine charges
See ABC, Mail Online etc Retired Australian swimming champion Geoff Huegill and his publicist wife, Sara Hills, have pleaded guilty to cocaine charges. The couple was caught with cocaine in a private suite at Sydney’s Randwick racecourse last month. They appeared in Waverly local court this morning. http://youtu.be/oNUA83WIyOU
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Behind the Body: Olympic Swimmer Ryan Lochte
Read Sports Illustrated After Ryan Lochte won five more medals at the 2012 Summer Games, bringing his grand total of Olympic hardware to 11, the media couldn’t get enough of the brawny swimmer—and vice versa. Photos of a shirtless Lochte started popping up all over the Internet, People magazine named him to its “Sexiest Man Alive†list,…
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LGBT activist and swimmer Michael Holtz talks personal acceptance, LGBT athletes
Read The Daily Northwestern More than 30 individuals gathered on Thursday to hear Michael Holtz, an openly gay swimmer and LGBT activist, talk about the “reinventions†in his life and LGBT issues in athletics. Holtz, who was Rainbow Alliance’s Spring Speaker, began his talk by describing his life in high school in Naples, Florida. He…
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Olympic swimmer Neil Brooks vindicated in fraud allegations
Read The Sydney Morning Herald Australian Olympic gold medal swimmer Neil Brooks and his wife Elle Brooks have won the first step in a bid to clear their names of fraud allegations. Optus Mobile, the publisher of the OptusZoo online magazine has settled with the Brooks’ on Thursday over claims arising out of false and…
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Ian Thorpe expected to ‘leave hospital within days’
The Sydney Morning Herald Swimming great Ian Thorpe should leave hospital within days after successfully fighting a number of serious infections. The 31-year-old five-time Olympic gold medallist fell ill after undergoing a series of surgeries on his shoulder at the start of 2014. The world record-holder has spent the past three weeks receiving treatment and…
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Geoff Huegill suspended as AustSwim ambassador, apologizes following drugs charge
See for instance The Australian Former swimming star Geoff Huegill has made a public apology after being allegedly caught with cocaine at Sydney’s Randwick races on Saturday. Huegill and his wife, Sara, were charged with possession of a prohibited drug, believed to be cocaine, at the star-studded autumn racing carnival. “Some people feel that they…
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Geoff Huegill and wife Sara charged over party drugs at Randwick races
Read The Daily Telegraph Former Australian swimming star Geoff Huegill and his wife, Sara Hills, locked themselves in a disabled toilet in the corporate area of Randwick Racecourse prior to being charged with drug possession on Saturday. http://youtu.be/AqoMQGrQJuM