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Cyril Baldock will soon be the oldest man to swim the English Channel at 70 years of age, 29 years after his first English Channel crossing which he took part in when he was 41.
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Grant Hackett in half-naked search for son at the Melbourne Crown
See for instance 9NEWS
Grant Hackett was barefoot and shirtless when he burst into the foyer of Melbourne’s Crown hotel-casino, searching for his four-year-old son.
The panicked moment, captured on a mobile phone camera in the early hours of Saturday morning, began when the troubled former Olympian woke to find his son Jagger had gone missing from their hotel room, theHerald Sun reports.
http://youtu.be/QTmsCRuya1g
See also Sunrise 7
http://youtu.be/YSlekJoBtb0
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Arthur Frayler – SEC Swim Championships 2014
Florida Gator Arthur Frayler interviewed by Florida Swim Network at the 2014 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships.
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Hilda Luthersdottir – SEC Swim Championships 2014
Icelandic swimmer Hrafnhildur Lúthersdóttir interviewed by Florida Swim Network at the 2014 SEC Swimming & Diving Championships.
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Rebecca Adlington has nose job following years of cruel taunts
Image courtesy of Rockybiggs, CC BY-SA 3.0 Read The Mirror
Olympic heroine Rebecca Adlington has had a nose job following years of taunts.
The retired swimmer, 25, underwent cosmetic surgery weeks ago at a top Harley Street clinic to have her nose reduced in size and a bump removed.
And she showed off the dramatic results as she enjoyed a day out with a friend.
Rebecca, who scooped two bronze medals at London 2012 and two golds at Beijing’s 2008 Olympics, has previously spoken about hating her looks.
Last year she broke down in tears over her appearance on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here! alongside beauty queen Amy Willerton, 21.
In a revealing interview, Becky said: “Every day I look in the mirror and go, ‘God, I’m not pretty. I’ve got a very big nose’.
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Scott Miller’s TV personality ex-wife Charlotte Dawson found dead in Sydney home
Image courtesy of Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0 Read for instance The Sydney Morning Herald
A series of intersecting and stressful events formed the backdrop to the final hours of an already vulnerable and depressed Charlotte Dawson, who killed herself in her luxury waterside apartment at Woolloomooloo.
The 47-year-old television personality was coping with her two-bedroom apartment on the Finger Wharf going up for auction on Saturday, she felt she was not getting enough promotion for the Logie award votes for her former role as judge on the Foxtel reality TV series Australia’s Next Top Model, and she had recently been setting up a homewares range.
On top of that, friends say she was struggling after the 60 Minutes tell-all interview with her former husband Scott Miller, whom she had confessed she still loved and would be the only man she would ever marry.
In her last interview just a week ago with Fairfax Media journalist Jo Casamento, Dawson had said she was unsure if she was strong enough to watch the interview that cavassed their failed marriage, his battle with the drug ice, criminal convictions for drug offences, stolen goods and prohibited weapons as well as accusations he was a pimp and a drug dealer.
“I continue to fight my depression – it’s a bitch of a thing – and I fear watching something like this as it’s the most painful time in my life,” she said.
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Brave Swede Water Rescues Cat Stuck Under Ferry
Read The Local
The cat had got stuck under the HSC Gotlandia II, which operates in Visby on the island of Gotland, and the crew were spurred into action after hearing strange noises coming from the vessel.
“We heard the cat meowing when we were getting on to work, it had probably fallen into the water and was trying to crawl up. He sat there and was distressed,” crew member Stellan Stenberg told Aftonbladet.
Colleague Johan Skärkarl donned his wetsuit and jumped into the water to retrieve the animal, before swimming to the shore with the cat nestled on top of his stomach.
Brave guy – I once tried rescuing a cat from a dog, and got a full face of scars to prove it ! :-)
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Rottnest Swim | 9 News Perth
A Sorrento man has taken out this year’s Rottnest Swim, ahead of thousands who competed in near perfect conditions.
The risk of sharks weren’t far from competitors’ minds with a two metre hammer-head spotted mid-race. -
New Year’s Day Swim 2014 – Wembury Beach
The official New Year’s Day swim was cancelled but that didn’t put off half a dozen hardy souls…
