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  • Thorpe 53.59 and 26th in the 100 butterfly

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    Ouch, there have been a lot of headlines these past weeks about the ‘Thorpedo’ flopping, bombing etc, and now even a full second improvement in the 100 butterfly from the World Cup leg in Beijing earlier this week doesn’t bring him closer to the final in Tokyo than a 53.59 and 26th spot in Tokyo,…

  • Ian Thorpe and Tiger Woods “in sad pursuit of faded glories”

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    Alrighty then, blunt talk by Claire Harvey on The Sunday Telegraph, who finds it “excruciating to watch these two men struggling for glories that never appeared to make them happy in the first place”: Since the age of about 17 Thorpe has seemed – and I know this sounds odd – particularly uncomfortable as a…

  • Ian Thorpe relieved to have avoided embarassment

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    Yup, that is right, 7th spot in a World Cup final is OK if you’ve been out of the sport for 5 years and are participating in a for you ‘weird‘ event. Or as he puts it himself: “(I was) not as bad as I thought I would be though, I didn’t vomit or anything”…

  • Geoff Huegill on Ian Thorpe’s comeback

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    I’ve been in a minibus with this guy and Eamon Sullivan as late as in Stockholm in October, it was even more mini with them in it :-) VIDEO: Can Thorpe beat Huegill? Also in these news, Eamon Sullivan is surprised that he maybe gets to race Ian Thorpe already now … and calls butterfly…

  • Thorpe and Sullivan going head to head in the kitchen

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    According to The Australian, Ian Thorpe and Eamon Sullivan will be revealing a cooking book each next, Thorpe the “Cook For Your Life” focusing on food he loves while maintaining a healthy, lean body, and Sullivan a more no-nonsense book called “Eamon’s Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining.” So, we present Eamon…

  • Ian Thorpe is not gay, not that there is anything wrong with that

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    Funny how an undoubtedly modern and open-minded reporter can begin by quoting Ian Thorpe on saying that he doesn’t like people writing about his private life, and then go on writing about his private life. It reminds me of when people are being loud about being more tolerant than others, not understanding that by doing…

  • Klim: “I am a master of my domain at the moment”

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    Australian swim star Michael Klim admits to there having been times when he has climbed out of the pool and shaken his head, now after his comeback, mornings he has returned form a session and told his wife Lindy he wasn’t sure he could continue. The most recent difficult time came in Dubai when he…

  • Swimmers are bigger today, says Thorpe

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    Five-time Australian Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe cannot return to competition before November, but came to the Mare Nostrum 2011 meet in Monaco with coach Gennadi Tourtski from his training base at Tenero in Switzerland. Asked how he sees his current capabilities compared with when he dominated the sport, he says “I’m physically not ready…

  • Ian Thorpe regains speed in the water

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    Having lost a whopping 18kg since he embarked on his secret swimming comeback seven months ago, a toned Thorpe fronted a media throng at Darling Harbour yesterday to tell the world he was “satisfied” with his progress. Read more here on the Herald Sun. VIDEO: Thorpe down under and upbeat