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  • Candice Alley declares she and Grant Hackett “100 percent OK”

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    Candice Alley declares she and Hackett are “100 percent OK”, and that nothing happened that early Sunday morning October 30th, when police was called to their property. She admits that something did occur, and states that she was embarrassed, but says it was nothing serious. Read the Herald Sun and She Knows. Here is Candice…

  • Introducing Swim Kids lessons with Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan

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    Wow, Uncle Toby’s isn’t just oatmeal and fumbling sprinters, presenting 6 video lessons with Grant Hackett & Eamon Sullivan. See www.swimkids.com.au

  • Hackett denies that his apartment was trashed

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    According to Grant Hackett himself, he was sorting out “private issues” with his wife when police swarmed his apartment at the weekend, according to the first sources ‘to find it in disarray’. Read The Telegraph via Gold Medal Mel “We came home and had a few private issues that we needed to deal with and…

  • Police investigating incident at Grant Hackett’s home

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    According to the Herald Sun, up to 8 police cars were called to the apartment of Olympic legend Grant Hackett in the early hours of Sunday morning, to find the apartment in total disarray, including a grand piano overturned. Read more here on the Herald Sun.

  • Cotterell tips China as major player in the pool

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    Australian swim coach Denis Cotterell is in a unique position to evaluate the strength of Chinese swimming, given that he has in recent years trained a number of the country’s best swimmers in his Gold Coast-based squad, including fastest man in the world for this year in the 200, 400, 800 & 1500 freestyle, Sun…

  • Aussies reluctant to lift the 1500 legacy

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    After producing legendary 1500 freestyle swimmers, Kieren Perkins and Grant Hackett, Swimming Australia is now lacking a 1500 freestyle swimmer in their squad to compete at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai. Robert Hurley, who succeeded for the selection standard of 1500 freestyle in 15:08.00 minutes last year, has abandoned the event this year, considering…

  • Embarrassing moments in the pool

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    Australian swim stars admitting to their most embarrassing swimming moments, including Grant Hackett revealing that he ended with a tumble turn at the end of his still 1500 meter short course world record 14:10.10 from the Australian Short Course Championships in Perth 2001. Via the17thman.

  • Mack Horton, 14 and 15:37.71 in the 1500 free

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    At the Australian age group nationals in Adelaide yesterday, 14-year-old Mack Horton set an impressive Australian age group record, clocking 15:37.71 in the 1500 long course freestyle. This wiped 10 seconds of his previous age group record in the age-group 14 and below. In comparison, Grant Hackett in 1996 clocked a very impressive 15:30.63 a…

  • Sun Yang swam 14:42.52 in Wuhan

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    Breaking news from the Speed Endurance Twitter feed. Accordingly to sports.sohu.com, Sun Yang ‘only’ managed a 14:42.52 in the 1500 freestyle, today at the Chinese Nationals in Wuhan. 8 seconds from his Chinese and Asian record, and about 9 from the world record. The time is well and clearly the best time in the world…