Category: Gossip
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Geoff Huegill and wife Sara welcome a baby girl
A week early, cathing Huegill plus a few organisers of the West Australian training camp by surprise last Saturday. Read the telegraph
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Geoff Huegill involved in scuba diver rescue effort
Australia’s Geoff Huegill was one of the first at the scene of a tragic diving death at Rottnest Island in Western Australia yesterday, where a 55-year-old scuba diver died after suffering an apparent heart attack while diving with family. Huegill was on a rigid inflatable boat with two other men when they were flagged down…
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Behind the scenes of a Stephanie Rice photoshoot
Go behind the scenes on a Stephanie Rice photoshoot, and hear about her plans for 2012. The Daily Telegraph has a piece today on how she shouldn’t be doing shoots like these, rather imagine herself on the cover of Vogue than Zoo magazine, and look at it through the eyes of a 40-year-old bloke rather…
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Stephanie Rice baffled by her party-girl image
Great heap of quotes here on the Daily Telegraph, where Stephanie Rice answers all the recent gossip about the breakup between her and ‘Wallaby bad boy Quade Cooper’, who will be her next boyfriend etc. She’s actually happy about the break up, saying it will allow her to concentrate on making the London Olympics team.
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Ian Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies also thinks he’s left it a little late
Menzies said yesterday she did not want to second-guess her former pupil and did not have any knowledge of his training regimen under respected coach Gennadi Touretski. But she had been surprised that he had made the decision to come back to a very different swimming landscape so late. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, via…
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Missy Franklin chooses NCAA over (a lot of) money
16-year-old Missy Franklin has said no to a lot of money these past months, according to the Wall Street Journal more than $130,000, because if she accepts them, she will be ineligible to compete at the NCAA. No to $20,000 for winning the USA Swimming’s Grand Prix series trophy last summer, $50,000 for finishing second…
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Phil Rogers has medals stolen, gets one back
Just before Christmas, Australia’s Phil Rogers had his Atlanta 1996 Olympics 100 breaststroke bronze medal stolen, two gold medals from the 1994 Commonweath Games, his Order of Australia medal and others, when thieves broke into his home in Adelaide while he was out with his wife and two daughters. They’d also taken a bit of…
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Michael Phelps splits with longtime girlfriend Nicole Johnson
Olympic legend Michael Phelps has according to the New York Post split with his longtime girlfriend Nicole Johnsen, a former Miss California. She travelled with him to Shanghai 2011, but sources say now that the couple broke up a few weeks ago, and that Phelps is telling friends he’s single. Bleacher Report speculates if this…
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Pellegrini selects Claudio Rossetto as her London 2012 coach
The Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) announced yesterday evening following a meeting between Federica Pellegrini and national swimming team coaches that her new coach will be the same as Magnini’s, and that her preparation for the London 2012 Olympics starts with a 20 day long altitude camp in Flagstaff, Arizona on January 8. After the training…