Category: Gossip
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British Gas GBR Swim Team Q&A
In April 2012, the British Gas GBR Swim Team took part in a Training Camp at the Aquatics Centre, London ahead of London 2012. Find out what happened when they took time out from training to answer questions from Facebook fans.
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“Ryk and I used drugs,” says ex-girlfriend Amanda Beard
South Africa’s Ryk Neethling today dismissed claims by his ex-girlfriend, American Amanda Beard, that they abused drugs during the time they were together, a relationship that began in 1999 and lasted until they both won Olympic gold at the Athens 2004 Summer Games. Read The Star
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Hugues Duboscq and coach Paparradopoulos part ways
According to SwimNews, French breaststroke Olympic medallist Hugues Duboscq has finaly parted company with mentor and coach of 15 years, Christos Paparradoupolos, after dissapointing results at the French Olympic trials in Dunkirk last month. Duboscq telling L’Equiope: “I hardly saw Christos in Dunkirk … after the races, he disappeared. Just like last year in Shanghai,…
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Amanda Beard talks bulimia, cutting on Entertainment Tonight
Via Boston Herald, RT goes even further calling an especially deep cut a ‘suicide attempt’, don’t know if that is overinterpretation, though.
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Filippo Magnini and Federica Pellegrini pose naked in Vanity Fair
The two swimming champions for the first time naked together in Vanity Fair. Him: ‘The woman of my life’. Her: ‘If he asked me to marry me right now, I would say yes’. See slideshow here on vanityfair.it (if you can handle it)
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Amanda Kendall dismissed from the Louisiana State swim team
According to reachforthewall.com, 2009 All-Met swimmer Amanda Kendall has been dismissed from the Louisiana State swim team for violating team rules, specific reasons unknown, and Kendall declining to comment on the rules violation. She has withdrawn from classes at LSUA and returned to her former club coach Peter Ward at George Mason University. LSU’s compliance…
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Adlington won’t add the 200 freestyle to her Olympic program
Rebecca Adlington has confirmed she will not attempt to add the 200 meter freestyle to her tally of Olympic swims in June – meaning her individual medal bid in London will remain at two. She will swim the 200 at the final British qualification meet in Sheffield in June, but only to maybe make the…
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No, Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan are not back together
Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan both deny recent reports that they are back together, read for instance Herald Sun [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/ItsStephRice/status/187352343073923072″] [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/Eamon_Sullivan/status/187361530612944897″]
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Pellegrini: “I wouldn’t get an abortion to go to the Olympics”
Out of AGI.it: The comment was made by Federica Pellegrini in an interview to Vanity Fair, which dedicates the cover of the issue due to be released tomorrow to the Italian swimming champion and her fiance’ Filippo Magnini, who are openly shown together for the first time. “I take the necessary precautions but, should it occur,…