That Fox 29 segment has unfortunately gone seriously viral on YouTube, at the moment 1,795,394 view here plus 790,008 view here plus 768,814 view here plus 224,321 view here plus a lot of lesser watched copies. 3.5 million plus in a week or so :-S
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Thomas Fraser-Holmes suffers a Thorpe moment at Australian Champs
Read Herald Sun
Gold Coast rising star Thomas Fraser-Holmes suffered an Ian Thorpe moment of drama on the opening day of competition at the Australian swimming championships in Adelaide today.
Fraser-Holmes flopped into the pool as he desperately tried to avoid a false start for the men’s 400m freestyle event.
It was the identical event and similar fall to what Thorpe suffered at the 2004 Olympic trials in Sydney.
See the result list here, all results can be found here
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Big business leaves SA swimmers to drown
Read Mail & Guardian
When Chad le Clos edged out Michael Phelps to win the 200m butterfly gold at last year’s Olympic Games the future of swimming in South Africa looked bright – but the sport has, since then, seemingly limped from one fiasco to the next.
Swimming South Africa (SSA) is currently without a title sponsor. This has led to suggestions that some of the members of the team competing at the World Championships in Barcelona in July and August will have to pay to attend the event.
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Hayden Stoeckel swimming ‘blind’ in championships
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South Aussie backstroker Hayden Stoeckel says he is “going in blind” for this weekend’s national championships at the SA Aquatic Centre after only ending his post-Olympics slumber 10 weeks ago.
Having “let his hair down” for six months after the London games, Stoeckel knows he faces an uphill battle to defend his 100m backstroke title and post a world championships qualifying time.
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Sprenger calls on Hackett to mentor the Australian swim team
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London Olympic silver medallist Christian Sprenger has called for former champion Grant Hackett to return to the Australian swim team as a mentor, to help fill the leadership gap and develop a new team captain. […]
”I have a lot of respect for [Hackett] and so did the team members back then,” said Sprenger.
”To be honest, I can’t really see another Grant Hackett as yet, unfortunately, but I think we can make the right changes and the right moves as a group.
”It might not even be a bad idea to have Grant Hackett come back to have a bit of a mentor role.
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Giaan Rooney opens up about her post-Olympics dumping from Nine and move to Seven
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Former swim star Giaan Rooney has revealed the details behind her post-Olympics boning from Channel Nine, saying she was stunned to be unceremoniously dumped after seven years with the network. […]
“I believe I am an incredibly loyal person and I had no desire to go anywhere else…I had assumed that my contract would just roll over and that’s what I had been told,” Rooney said in an interview with the blog Show + Tell.
“I loved it and I loved my team that I worked with.
“(But) I came back from London and had a bit of a holiday and all of sudden it was like; ‘We don’t have anything for you next year’. And that came as a huge shock.
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US tourists swim for nearly 14 hours after ship sinks near St. Lucia
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Dan Suski, a 30-year-old business owner and information technology expert from San Francisco, had been wrestling a 200-pound marlin in rough seas with help from his sister, Kate Suski, a 39-year-old architect of Seattle.
He was still trying to reel in the fish when water rushed into the cabin and flooded the engine room, prompting the captain to radio for help as he yelled out their coordinates.
Thus began an ordeal in which the siblings swam 14 hours to reach land. They lived to tell about it back in St. Lucia, safe but shaken.
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Ryan Lochte Unfazed By Reality Show ‘Haters’
http://youtu.be/k7dlNRDcgrU
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http://youtu.be/w7fk26IZlBk