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Category: Gossip

  • Injury forces Nick D’Arcy to cut load

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    A back injury that kept Nick D’Arcy out of the Queensland Swimming Championships was just a “speed bump” on the road to London, according to his coach Michael Bohl. Following his liver problems this summer, forcing him out of the Shanghai World Championships. And of course, the other thing. Via Sunshine Coast Daily

  • Amanda Beard on her “Swim Like a Mom” blog

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    Or SLAM for short, her “athlete’s view of parenthood & more”. She gives workouts for beginning through advanced swimmers (as well as dryland training), offers fitness and fashion tips, shares the music she likes and even gives “Amanda Facts”. Read more on USA Today, and visit www.swimlikeamom.com.

  • Mark Foster rules out a sixth Olympics

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    According to Reuters, 41-year-old Mark Foster has now ruled out the rumors of him competing at his home Olympic Games next year, as he doesn’t envisage winning a medal. “I know I could make the team and be in the top two in the country but would I do anything? No, I’d probably make the…

  • Stephanie Rice suffers shoulder infection following surgery

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    Triple Olympic champion Stephanie Rice has had a minor setback in her recovery from shoulder surgery last week, with an infection now forcing her to miss training. Rice’s doctor ordered her to avoid training today, “Doc said it was slightly infected. Got some antibiotics and can get into xtraining again tomorrow,” Rice tweeted. Coach Michael…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale enjoying himself at the Next Restaurant

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    Food connoisseur Garrett Weber-Gale has been out visiting the Next Restaurant Chicago, ‘explorers of world cuisine’. Looks like a fun ride, with something in a cardboard box, drawing on your plate, meal packed in a WWF thermos, sweet potatoes on fire and ice to be licked off a beater. And it was great, he tweets.

  • Michael Phelps adopts a puppy

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    Her name is Penelope, and she’s a beautiful Catahoula mix, that Phelps decided to adopt after this show. Natalie Couglin is there as well, no news here if she kept her puppy too. Via Global Animal. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

  • Michael Phelps talks retirement

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    He’s still adamant on stopping before the age of 30.

  • Wu Peng eyeing “final olympics”

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    Earlier this month, Chinese swimmer Wu Peng declared that next year’s London Olympics will be his last time competing. 24-year-old Wu’s first Olympics were the 2004 Athens Games, where he made the finals, and now he’s intensifying his training schedule to prepare for London 2012, eager to go out strong with a medal victory. Via…

  • Ian Crocker coming out of retirement ?

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    Breaking news on the Swimmer’s Circle, Ian Crocker is back in the USADA drug-testing pool, which could be indication of an athlete coming out of retirement. It could be nothing though, as later in the article it is revealed that Aaron Peirsol never left the drug-testing pool after officially retiring in 2011, despite insisting that…