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Category: Gossip

  • 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…

  • Shock, European coaches busted for spying on Magnussen

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    Australian media is alive with the news that James Magnussen’s coach Brant Best recently caught two men secretly timing and recording details of their training session, taking split times and everything (!). “There have been people sitting in the grandstands. A couple came in the other week and were looking and timing.” Oh the horror,…

  • Christian Kubusch: “My girlfriend is normal”

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    An interview with German long distance swimmer Christian Kubusch, courtesy of the organizers of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships.

  • Stibergs arrival to Szczecin delayed because the pilots overslept

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    She did okay today, Norway’s Katharina Stiberg, first qualifying this morning for the 50 breaststroke Szczecin 2011 semi-final in 31.13, and then this afternoon for the final in 30.94, before ending up fourth in the final with a 30.80. But hey, when she was supposed to leave Evenes in Norway, yesterday morning, it turned out…

  • Oussama Mellouli pops rib head, might pull out of Arab Games

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    Ouch, that sounds painful http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144152232986816513 He is still swimming, but suffering http://twitter.com/#!/OusMellouli/status/144288573229760512

  • Nick D’Arcy files for bankruptcy

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    Ouch, Nick D’Arcy has reportedly now filed for bankruptcy, which means he’ll avoid having to pay the AUS $180.000 that he was ordered to pay Simon Cowley in damages for assaulting him. Cowley’s lawyer isn’t pleased: ‘It’s just a way of walking away from this whole mess and this debt and this judgment that he…

  • Dana Vollmer ‘lives on pizza’

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    According to Universal Sports, U.S. swimmer Dana Vollmer discovered this year that she is allergic to gluten and eggs, meaning no bread and no all-American breakfast. Recently she and her husband discovered a solution in the form of gluten- and egg-free pizza crust, that tastes like normal pizza, and that she therefore uses for pizza…

  • Criticism over all-male UK Sports Personality of the Year shortlist

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    The BBC is receiving criticism now after announcing a Sports Personality of the Year shortlist that for the first time since 2006 doesn’t include a woman. World champion Rebecca Adlington for instance tweeted (after receiving a lot of tweets about the list missing women) that “Think there has been some great women in sport this…

  • Federica Pellegrini ‘dumped’ by coach Bonifacenti

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    Warning, my Italian is really lousy (/non-existant), but according to Taiwan News, Federica Pellegrini has split from her coach Federico Bonifacenti, third coach since the death of her former trainer and mentor Alberto Castagnetti in October 2009, adding a quote from her website: “Unfortunately it is not easy to work with me”. Google Translate quotes…