Tag: Alicia Coutts
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Dana Vollmer vs Alicia Coutts – 7 hundredths of a second between Gold & Silver!
Today we take you back to the Women’s 100m Butterfly final at the 2011 edition of the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, where four incredible swimmmers USA’s Vollmer, Australia’s Coutts, China’s LU and Sjostrom from Sweden battled for the Gold medal. With only 7 hundredths of a second between Gold and Silver, this final deserves…
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Alicia Coutts has ‘pushed herself to absolute limit’ in preparation for final Olympics
“Definitely I know that I’ve been doing everything I can, pushing myself to the absolute limit,†Coutts said. “I almost passed out twice at training. I did some filming with Sunrise and they were filming my main set and at one stage I thought, ‘I’m going to vomit, I’m going to vomit all over myself…
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Alicia Coutts: ‘It sucks the life out of everybody around you; it is pure evil’
I was six months old when my dad was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Being so young and seeing my dad go through his fight with cancer was hard to really understand. He passed away on the day of my first ever swimming carnival. I was just seven years old. My mum said I wasn’t going…
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The March Charge Ambassadors – Alicia Coutts
Alicia knows the cost of the War on Cancer. She wants to obliterate it. Will you help? 1/3 of cancers can be prevented by a healthy lifestyle. This March, push yourself 1/3 FURTHER/FASTER/HARDER and let’s obliterate cancer once and for all. See Alicia’s story now at: http://www.themarchcharge.com.au/ https://youtu.be/erllyCC2oAo
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Alicia Coutts ready to make splash at NSW meet
Married life is bliss for dual Olympian Alicia Coutts but she is not quite ready to let go of her first love – swimming. Coutts, 28, admitted it was very tempting to walk away from the pool for good after tying the knot in September. A chronic shoulder injury that refused to go away provided…
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Coach John Fowlie says missing worlds a ‘blessing’ for Canberra swimmer Alicia Coutts
Swimming coach John Fowlie says five-time Olympic Games medallist Alicia Coutts missing this year’s world championships squad could be a “blessing” ahead of next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Fowlie added Coutts’ fellow Canberran Ben Treffers would use this year’s worlds to gain valuable experience and ensure he’s also part of the Rio squad.…
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Sprenger and Coutts could pull plug on career after poor results at #AusChamps15
Australian veterans Christian Sprenger and Alicia Coutts may both retire after the Olympic medallists failed to make the Dolphins team last night in their pet events. Coutts wanted to retire 12 weeks ago due to a persistent shoulder injury that requires surgery while Sprenger has battled back off just six weeks training following shoulder surgery…
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Alicia Coutts contemplates retirement from swimming
Five-time Olympic Games medallist Alicia Coutts has contemplated an immediate retirement from swimming, declaring “if I retired tomorrow, I would be satisfied with what I’ve done in the sport”. Canberra swimmer Coutts also hit out at the sport’s critics, saying that constant criticism was “disheartening” as she weighs up her future. It was speculated last…
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Last Commonwealth Games for Alicia Coutts
On the pool deck, Alicia Coutts is realistic about defending her five gold medals from Delhi 2010 but behind-the-scenes she’s enjoying her last Commonwealth Games bonding with her teammates over a bowl of whipped cream. See Brisbane Times