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  • Stephanie Rice in trouble for posting a photo of herself in her birthday suit

    Stephanie Rice in trouble for posting a photo of herself in her birthday suit

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    Lame pun borrowed from this article on the Herald Sun :-)

  • Hackett’s 60 Minutes interview meets harsh criticism

    Hackett’s 60 Minutes interview meets harsh criticism

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    Lots of Australian articles today, asking for instance “Grant Hackett is ’embarrassed’. But is he sorry?“, “Does Grant Hackett deserve sympathy and forgiveness? Or does he deserve an Oscar?“, “Remorse or damage control” and “What’s Grant Hackett not telling us?“. With tough talk on Twitter too, apparently it didn’t go well.

  • Grant Hackett: Blame me, not the booze

    Grant Hackett: Blame me, not the booze

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    32-year-old Grant Hackett has told Channel 9’s 60 Minutes that it was the breakdown of his marriage to Candice Alley, and not excessive drinking, that had caused him to snap. Read Adelaide Now and see The Telegraph. “The reality was it wasn’t going well and I kept those cards really close to my chest and…

  • Wife tries to stop Grant Hackett’s TV chat tomorrow

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    Grant Hackett’s estranged singer wife brought in lawyers to try to stop Hackett appearing on Channel 9’s 60 Minutes after learning of the interview last week, friends said. Both sides are understood to have faced off on Thursday over whether the interview could go ahead, with Nine since being closely guarded over what will appear…

  • Grant Hackett to talk about fall from grace on 60 minutes

    Grant Hackett to talk about fall from grace on 60 minutes

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    Sunday night June 24th, Grant Hackett will publicly address the night he trashed his apartment, the collapse of his marriage and the allegations that he physically abused his wife. Read Herald Sun here and here, and here where Candice Alley’s family says Australia’s Olympic team chief should be ashamed of his support of Hackett.

  • Ryan Lochte on the cover of Men’s Health

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    Be sure to pick up this month’s issue of Men’s Health, via The Official Ryan Lochte Fan Page on Facebook. Lochte is (well deserved) breaking into mainstream media these days. Cover of MH huh? has to be all downhill from… http://t.co/udZKbxax — Aleksander Hetland (@alexhetland) June 17, 2012

  • Magnini swears off sex during Games

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    Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun. “There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.

  • D’Arcy and Monk in hot water for posing with guns

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    According to the Herald Sun, Aussie ‘bad boys’ Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk “have sparked outrage after they posed with high-powered weapons in a US gun shop”, to the point where Swimming Australia demanded pictures taken off Facebook and issued this statement, promising a talk with the athletes upon return to Australia: “Swimming Australia became…

  • Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes

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    Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli on AZ Daily Sun “It’s been kind of crazy because this is the first time I’m doing triples, which is three workouts a day,” said Mellouli, who won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle for his native Tunisia at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Even for a…