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Category: Gossip

  • Busted: Magnini caught kissing with Pellegrini

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    Ouch, read SwimNews.com and see the video below … Former world 100m freestyle champion Filippo Magnini is back in the news after being photographed flirting with Federica Pellegrini at world titles last month. No consequence for the Italian Olympic champion but for Magnini the moment has cost him the woman he might have married. Italian…

  • Kirsty Coventry will train in Monaco until the Olympics

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    Interesting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle. Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale was on Danish TV tonight

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    A short segment on TV2 tonight about his ‘holiday’ at Noma, working in the kitchen of the number one restaurant in the world. The subtitle says “I come here and work for hours in the kichen. It is tedious and hard.” If you have trouble with any other Danish speak in the segment, then please…

  • Sir Branson bows out of The Swim after fire ravages his home

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    Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma

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    First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can. How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to…

  • Eamon Sullivan struggles with being a sex symbol

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    See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-) “I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.” Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan…

  • Ronan Keating injures leg ahead of epic swim

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    Irish Boyzone pop star Ronan Keating took to the sea off the east coast of Britain today in preparation of the 10-member charity swim from Ireland to Wales next month, but then revealed on Twitter that he is facing “disaster” after pulling a muscle in his leg. Now, this is the moment when his coach…

  • Behold, Frederik of Denmark and a 100-kilo sunfish

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    While visiting the oceanarium Nordsømuseet in Hirtshals today, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark took time off to don a dive suit and feed the fishes, being the experienced ‘frømand‘ (Danish Navy Seal) that he is. Biggest attractions there are three sunfishes, whereof the biggest called Anton is well above 100 kg in weight. The sunfishes…

  • The US East Coast hit by (massive) earthquake

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    Millions of Americans from Georgia to Canada were jolted Tuesday by the most powerful earthquake to hit the US East Coast in decades. Summer Sanders tweeted about how crazy it feels to be in a swimming pool during an earthquake, while Michael Phelps felt nothing. Ricky Berens felt that he was missing out on something,…