Tag: Grant Hackett
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Grant Hackett faces media after ‘nipple cripple’ incident
Grant Hackett explains the fallout from his drunken flightAustralian swimming legend Grant Hackett has been accused of tweaking a passenger’s nipple ‘quite forcefully’ on a flight after the man reclined his chair, according to reports. https://youtu.be/xmkPT5L7O-o
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Olympic athletes finding lucrative sponsorship deals harder to come by
Australia’s Olympic athletes are facing the sobering reality that the huge sponsorship dollars that filled their predecessors’ pockets are vanishing. Glamour swimmers such as Grant Hackett and Ian Thorpe comfortably earnt four or five times a year what many of the current swim stars make. The gap is not just down to the fact that…
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Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 3
Paltrinieri beats Hackett 13 year-old WR World and European records fell on Day 3 proving that the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships are a true year-ending showcase featuring some of the greatest stars on the planet. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri was the one stealing the show in Netanya by cracking the 1500m free WR, joining Hungary’s…
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Grant Hacett Exclusive: “How Rehab Saved Me”
Grant Hackett learnt something valuable about himself in rehab — and it changed everything. “I’m an intense perfectionist,” the three-time Olympic gold medalist tells WHO. “I can’t stand anything that’s not 100 per cent right. I would never allow myself to relax, always wanted intensity, always wanted to swim hard, go to the gym hard,…
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Team Speedo video ǀ Interview with swimmer Grant Hackett
He’s a 10-time swimming world champion and currently holds two world records – meet Grant Hackett, Aussie swimmer and Team Speedo athlete. In this waterside video interview, we give Grant a grilling about cartoons, surfing and his guilty pleasure.
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Australian Swimming: Rio protocol camp
Watch 2016 Chef de Mission Kitty Chiller, Australian Swimming Team Head Coach Jacco Verhaeren and swim team members Bronte Campbell, Emily Seebohm and Grant Hackett talk about the Swimming Australia Rio protocol camp.