Category: Gossip
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Grant Hackett: “No pool, no career”
Tell me about it, it’s like hockey rink that I never got ! “I began swimming at Innisfail in Queensland and we had a pool and my swimming career would be non-existent without the pool. “Sporting facilities are the heart of regional communities and it becomes more than just a pool, but a meeting place,”…
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Ryk Neethling in fight with former assistants over clients
Olympic gold medallist Ryk Neethling is seeking a court order to stop his former swimming instructors Lizette Botha and Uschi Dahlmann from “soliciting” his clients and competing with his swimming schools, allegedly by having gotten hands on his client database. Read The Star
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Michael Phelps the new global face of Head & Shoulders
Michael Phelps has signed a lucrative endorsement deal with the International Olympic Committee’s newest worldwide partner, Procter & Gamble, to become the global face of an anti-dandruff shampoo and feature prominently in their Wash in Confidence campaign. Via Reuters and MSN Video: EXCLUSIVE: Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps becomes brand ambassador for Head and Shoulders
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The truth about the night Grant Hackett snapped
Brace yourself before reading this Women’s Day report … On the surface, Grant Hackett seems to have it all – a beautiful wife, gorgeous two-year-old twins, and a golden reputation that has earned him a host of corporate gigs and a commentary spot at next year’s Olympics. But the triple Olympic gold medallist’s future is…
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Van der Burgh named South Africa’s best swimmer
Multiple gold-medallist Cameron van der Burgh held off strong challenges from fellow swim stars Natalie du Toit and Chad le Clos to be named Swimmer of the Year’ at the SA Annual Aquatic function held in Johannesburg today. Swimming SA’s awards committee took into account performances set between the period of May 2010 to April…
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2 named in swim team sex abuse suit deny allegations
Swim coach Amanda Cox and former head coach John Diercks yesterday denied any wrongdoing after being named in a lawsuit alleging a culture of pedophilia surrounding youth swimming. Doesn’t look good though, Cox says she had no idea Wheat was molesting anyone until the night before he was arrested, but the victim’s attorney Jonathan Little…
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Ian Thorpe and Tiger Woods “in sad pursuit of faded glories”
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…
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Candice Alley declares she and Grant Hackett “100 percent OK”
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…