Tag: Nicole Livingstone
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Grant Hackett, Ian Thorpe go from hero to zero while golden girls thrive
Read Herald Sun Life after swimming has left the likes of Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett floundering, but Australia’s golden girls have taken a shine to new careers post-pool. Athens Olympic gold medallist Giaan Rooney has carved out a successful, scandal-free career as a swimming commentator and advertising spruiker, while three-time Olympian Nicole Livingstone…
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Australian Swimming’s “Toxic Culture”
“Two independent reviews into Australian swimming’s poor performance at the London Olympics have unearthed explosive details. Senior team members are accused of bullying, abusing alcohol and prescription drugs, and thus creating a “toxic culture.”
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Stilnox ‘cost Grant Hackett gold’ at Beijing 2008, coach Cotterell reveals
Grant Hackett’s former coach Denis Cotterell has no doubt the controversial sleeping medication Stilnox cost the 1500 freestyle champion his third and historic Olympic gold medal. Read The Australian According to Cotterell, Hackett had slipped into an adaptation phase after swimming two astonishing broken 1500m time trials at the Australian team’s staging camp in Singapore…
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The ‘dictatorial’ nature of swimming is to blame for Monk’s lie ?
Wow, swimming commentator and retired Australian Olympic swimmer Nicole Livingstone blames the “dictatorial” nature of our sport for the elaborate lie that Kenrick Monk came up with on Wednesday, saying he was a victim of a hit-an-run accident when all that happened was that he broke his arm from falling of a skateboard. “Having been…