Tag: Nick D’Arcy
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Controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy announces his retirement
Read The Australian Controversial Olympic swimmer Nick DÂ’Arcy has retired from the sport. D’Arcy, 26, has slipped out of competitive swimming, quietly announcing his intentions to pursue his medical career. “It’s been an honour and a privilege to represent my country over the past eight years,†D’Arcy wrote on social network site, Facebook, tonight. Post…
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D’Arcy says swim team will not heal quickly
Controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy says he fears the fractures within Australia’s swim team will take a long time to mend. http://youtu.be/M2M1-Vf0YAg
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D’Arcy says, ‘Blame swimmers not coaches for London flop’
Read SuperSports Nick D’Arcy believes his fellow swimmers have to take responsibility for Australia’s disappointment in the London Olympic pool last year rather than blaming coaches and team management. “Some of things outlined there were designed to be inflammatory more than anything else,” D’Arcy told Triple M radio on Wednesday. “I think we’re just trying…
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Olympic swimmer Nick D’Arcy considers retiring and pursuing career in medicine
He failed to make the 200m butterfly final at the London Olympics due to a shoulder injury and surgery since has kept him out of the water. D’Arcy has stopped training with Brisbane-based coach Michael Bohl’s group and will not trial for Australia’s world championship team in April. His coach said the 25-year-old, who works…
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D’Arcy, Monk defy media ban with holiday snaps
Controversial swimmer Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk could be in trouble with AOC officials yet again after the pair flouted a social media ban by posting photos of themselves holidaying in Croatia. Read more here on 9News
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Kendrick Monk and Nick D’Arcy dishonorably discharged from London 2012
Michael Klim, Jana Pittman and Lisa Curry discussing the Australian Olympic Committee’s decision to eject Kendrick Monk and Nick D’Arcy from the London 2012 Games, tiny twist that they were allowed to stay in Europe instead of being sent directly home. Via the17thman
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Stephanie Rice must swim through pain in London
Stephanie Rice’s famously troublesome shoulder has flared up after full-intensity speedwork in London to emphasise the stark reality that she will need to swim through pain from the start of her Olympic program on Saturday. Read the Herald Sun. (Video featuring Rice, D’Arcy and Magnussen, among others)
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Aussie bosses return fire in gun controversy
Olympic organisers have hit back at claims of hypocrisy over their decision to sanction swimmers Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk for posing with guns, saying “this matter involving Nick and Kenrick was not about visiting a gun shop, more the manner in which they posed in the photos, as well as past indiscretions which bring…
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Red faces for Aussie bosses as other gun pictures emerge
Wow, an embarrassing double standard has been exposed as Swimming Australia is today set to sanction Nick D’Arcy and Kenrick Monk over gun photos the other day. Eamon Sullivan has highlighted the hypocrisy of how the federation organized an AOC-sponsored pre-Beijing bonding session at a Canberra rifle range in 2007, and behold, here is a…