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The AOC President and IOC Vice President, John Coates, has described Rio’s preparations for the 2016 Olympics as “the worst I have experienced†and “worse than Athens†(2004).
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Former swimming star Geoff Huegill has made a public apology after being allegedly caught with cocaine at Sydney’s Randwick races on Saturday.
Huegill and his wife, Sara, were charged with possession of a prohibited drug, believed to be cocaine, at the star-studded autumn racing carnival.
“Some people feel that they have been let down and I deeply apologise for that,†the 35-year-old Olympian told the Nine Network on Tuesday.
A teen who went for a swim in a residential lake drowned Sunday.
Picturecorrect says 7, Brooke Shaden says 11 in the video.
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Former Australian swimming star Geoff Huegill and his wife, Sara Hills, locked themselves in a disabled toilet in the corporate area of Randwick Racecourse prior to being charged with drug possession on Saturday.
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Read The Republic
Phelps has slowly started back and now trains just once a day in the afternoon. No double or triple sessions or plowing through thousands of meters a day.
Call this comeback Phelps 2.0.
While his workload will go up eventually, for now Phelps is doing half the amount of training he did during the height of career, when he won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
“I’m sort of experimenting with stuff that I didn’t have the guts to do before, like not swim as far,” Bowman said. “I’m very pleased with how he’s doing.”
This relaxed approach appears to suit both Phelps and Bowman just fine. Their decades-long partnership — rare in a sport where swimmers frequently change coaches — survived fiery clashes as Phelps grew up and rebelled against Bowman’s hard-nosed ways.
“Our last several years together, it really wasn’t much fun for everybody,” the coach said.
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Just past a sign warning patrons, “If you’ve had diarrhea in the past two weeks don’t use the pool,” six geriatrics shimmied down slick poles on a recent weekday afternoon to blaring club beats.
Outside, in the retirement home’s well-appointed lobby, a befuddled man struggled to make a call on the new iPhone his son bought him. Inside, Prince reminded the senior aqua pole buffs, “Women, not girls, they rule my world.”
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Brooke Bennett feels at home in the water. The three-time Olympic gold medalist knows what it’s like to compete at the highest level.
She also knows what it’s like to swim for noble cause.
“We want to keep spreading the word,” she said with a smile.
Bennett spent her Saturday morning teaching kids from local TBAY swim teams tips and techniques they’ll need next month out on the open waters of Clearwater Beach. Bennett will join the non-profit Swim Across America to put on a race designed to raise money to fight cancer.
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A Maryland swim coach is out on bail, one day after police arrested him on charges of repeatedly abusing a 7-year-old girl three decades ago.
Christopher Huott put up his hood and had nothing to say after putting up $50,000 in bail money and walking out of the Montgomery County Detention Center.
Prosecutors say his victim went to police alleging her then swim coach fondled her and had her perform oral sex on him starting when she was just 7 and ending when she turned 12.
Huott is the founder and owner of the the popular Maryland Suburban Swim Club at Fairland Aquatics Center in Laurel.
Laurel Police and Montgomery County prosecutors say he may have victimized other children since then. And they are urging those victims to come forward.
