Tag: Grant Hackett
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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.
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Candice Alley: The truth about Grant
Candice Alley can’t hide the hurt. ‘I ran out of tears, it was so exhausting,’ she says, remembering the dying days of her five-year marriage to Olympic legend Grant Hackett. She has moved on with her life. But Grant’s remarkable pool comeback – creating new headlines about the golden couple’s split – has finally forced…
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Mack Horton can win Rio gold: Grant Hackett
Australian swimming great Grant Hackett believes his country has unearthed its next Olympic 1,500 metres freestyle champion in 18-year-old Mack Horton. Horton confirmed his status as Australia’s new long-distance king with an easy win in the 1500 final at the national championships on Friday. Horton cruised to victory in 14 minutes 44.09 seconds, the fastest…
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Grant Hackett turned to drugs after a death threat: Father Neville Hackett speaks out
“This happened about two years ago when he was forced to immediately leave Melbourne to live in Sydney. The truth about this has never come out. “That’s what really caused the Stilnox abuse and the addiction. “I know he used Stilnox while he was swimming but he wasn’t hooked on it. It was when his…