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Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Australia swim great Hackett dumped by charity

Australian swimming great Grant Hackett and his singer wife Candice Alley in Beijing in 2008. Hackett has been dumped by a children's anti-violence charity after pictures were published of his trashed apartment following an alleged drunken rampage last ...

Emerson in China for services trade promotion and free-trade talks

Along with his counterpart, Commerce Minister Chen Deming, Dr Emerson will also hear the report of the inaugural Australia-China Services Sector Promotion Forum. The forum was set up in April last year during a visit to Beijing by Prime Minister Julia ...

Snowsill's selection in the bag

The runaway winner of Beijing is likely to get the third and final place on the Australian team. Emma Moffatt has already been chosen and in-form Erin Densham is the obvious second pick when the team is named on Thursday. Snowsill has been in mixed ...

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Stephanie Rice: All grown up

Stephanie Rice training before the Olympics. Photo: Mal Fairclough Fame has been a heavy load for Stephanie Rice, writes Michael Cowley, but she has bigger, broader, better shoulders now. OVER time, even gold tarnishes. It gets a dark tinge and needs ...

Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

But, based purely on rankings after the European titles, our current national team predictions are six gold, and around 19-20 total medals. In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel ...

Rice, Jones in Aussie swim team for US warm-up

Triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice will spearhead an Australian contingent at the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in California next week ahead of the London Olympics, according to Swimming Australia. Rice along with breaststroke ...

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Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Lay-off was just the ticket for Trickett

S he had to settle for bronze at the world championships three years ago but Libby Trickett was struck by a rare moment of serenity in Rome after realising missing out on the gold medal did not really matter. Trickett, one of the most competitive women ...

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Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Rice, Jones in Aussie swim team for US warm-up

Rice along with breaststroke champion Leisel Jones and Beijing Olympic medallists Hayden Stoeckel, Libby Trickett and Jessicah Schipper will be among a 25-strong Australian team competing in the four-day meet, starting on May 31.

Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

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Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

In Beijing four years ago Australia won six gold - Stephanie Rice (200m and 400m individual medleys) Leisel Jones (100m breaststroke), Libby Trickett (100m butterfly), and the womens' 4 x 200m freestyle and 4 x 100m medley relays - and six silver and ...

Irish freestyle relay team fail to qualify for Games

SWIMMING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS IRELAND'S 4x200 metres women's freestyle relay team finished sixth in the final at the European swimming championship in Debrecen, Hungary, yesterday but their time of 8.09.15 will not earn them a place in the London ...

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Free falls back into line for shot at fifth Games

Free will make his comeback from shattering leg and rib injuries, that combined to derail his initial London Games plans, in the men's pair with Fergus Pragnell in Lucerne at World Cup 2. The 39-year-old, who teamed with Drew Ginn to win gold in the ...

Olympics-Aussie rower Free defies odds to keep dream alive

Free, who won gold in the pairs with Drew Ginn in Beijing four years ago, ran his hand over his shaven head as he recalled the road accident that looked to have put an almost insuperable obstacle in his path to London. "There were four of us out ...

Aussie rower Free defies odds to keep dream alive

Free, who won gold in the pairs with Drew Ginn in Beijing four years ago, ran his hand over his shaven head as he recalled the road accident that looked to have put an almost insuperable obstacle in his path to London. 'There were four of us out ...

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Crow causes single scull surprise

Drew Ginn's new-model Oarsome Foursome and the defending Olympic champion men's double sculls crew of Scott Brennan and David Crawshay also finished as runners-up in Switzerland. In their first international hit-out of the year, Ginn's Australian men's ...

The Expected and the Unexpected - World Cup II report

Lining up was a pack of talented crews: 2009 World Champions Germany (Eric Knittel and Stephan Krueger), 2008 Olympic Champions Australia (David Crawshay and Scott Brennan), 2008 bronze medallists from the men's quadruple sculls France (Cedric Berrest ...

Aussie rowers face Olympic test

Reigning Olympic champions David Crawshay and Scott Brennan set the quickest time - 6min 18.11sec - in the men's double scull to comfortably progress to today's semi-finals. Just as impressive were the new men's four combination of Drew Ginn, ...

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Aussie swimmers sitting pretty after Europeans fire their best shots

The other events Australia is currently leading the rankings are relays, the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay with four women ranked in the top nine in the world, and also the women's 4 x 100m medley relay (although the US are expected to enter London ...

Gold for Cseh as Hungary top medals table

The Italians took gold in the 4x100m medley relay ahead of Germany and Hungary. Amongst the women Germany's Britta Steffen won the 50m freestyle in 24.37sec, with Dutch competitor Hinkelien Schreuder (24.78) and Greek Nery-Mantey Niangkouara (24.93) in ...

Swimming-European championship women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay

Results from the European championship women's 4 x 100m freestyle relay final on Monday 1. Germany B.Steffen/S.Lippok/L.Vitting/D.Schreiber 3:37.98 2. Sweden I.Marko-Varga/M.Coleman/S.Sjostrom/G.Fagundez 3:38.40 3.

Irish miss Olympic relay mark

The Irish quartet of McMahon, Nocher, Carson and Fiona Doyle will now compete in the 4x100m medley relay on Sunday in their final attempt to qualify a relay team for London. Shani Stallard and Doyle enjoyed a good day, making the semi-finals of the ...

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Snowsill's selection in the bag

Emma Snowsill is keen to come back to Australia with another gold medal from London. Source: The Courier-Mail NOT even a shambolic selection process is likely to stop Emma Snowsill getting the chance to defend her Olympic triathlon title in London.

Aussie triathlon pair opt out of Madrid

Olympic triathlon gold medallist Emma Snowsill and fellow London Games hopeful Courtney Atkinson will stick to their original plans and not race this weekend in Madrid. The pair have not made the top 10 in international races this year and they are ...

AUSSIE TRIATHLETES GOING FOR BROKE AND OLYMPIC SPOTS IN SAN DIEGO

Reigning Olympic champion Emma Snowsill and 2011 ITU World Championship fourth placegetter Emma Jackson, have both prepared at home, Snowsill on the Gold Coast and Jackson with her QAS squad in Brisbane. Snowsill (14th in Sydney) is certain to be ...

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Aussie sailors win three World Cup medals

Australia's sailors have received another boost ahead of the Olympics, winning three medals at the fifth round of the world cup in the Netherlands. Former world champion Krystal Weir won gold in the Laser Radial dinghy class off Medemblik on Sunday ...

It's back-to-back gold or bust for Page

Recommended Coverage Going for gold, again End of sidebar. Return to start of sidebar. Since the former rivals first started sailing together shortly after Page won gold in Beijing with Nathan Wilmot, the two have been almost unstoppable, winning three ...

Three golds for GB in opening finals session in Lucerne; race reports

The men's four of Alex Gregory, Peter Reed, Tom James and Andrew Triggs Hodge won a dramatic race with Australia to take gold at the World Rowing Cup in Lucerne this morning in a time of 5:50.84. Helen Glover and Heather Stanning had earlier started ...

Australian sailors smash opposition at World titles

The performances show that Australia could be in line for a big medal haul at the London Olympics, following a return of two gold and one silver in Beijing. Belcher and Page were 19 points clear of their nearest rivals from France going into the medal ...

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Hooker's defence starts to fade

RENAUD Lavillenie looks increasingly likely to ensure Steve Hooker does not claim another gold in the Olympic Games pole vault. Lavillenie has emerged as France's main Olympic gold medal hope - and the man most likely to ensure Hooker misses ...

Hooker to defend pole vault gold medal in London

PERTH: Steve Hooker will defend his gold medal in the pole vault at the London Olympics after clearing the qualifying height of 5.72 meters on Friday on his second attempt at a specially sanctioned meet in Perth. The 29-year-old Hooker, ...

Steve Hooker now ready to reclaim the heights

DEFENDING Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker believes he is finally on the way back to top form as he prepares to leave for Shanghai today for his first international competition since jumping the Olympic qualifying height in Perth on Friday ...

Olympics-Pole vaulter Hooker seeking boost before Shanghai

| MELBOURNE May 10 (Reuters) - Olympic pole vault champion Steve Hooker will bid to haul himself out of a crisis of confidence before the London Games at a disused warehouse in Perth on Friday in front of an exclusive crowd of athletes and officials, ...

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Wallace off the pace in Poland

Olympic kayak champion Ken Wallace has endured a deflating start to his London Games build-up in his new K2 boat. Wallace and fellow Gold Coaster Jake Clear failed to make the nine-boat K2 1000m final in the World Cup 1 regatta in Poland to show ...

Apartheid kept his father out of the Olympics but nothing will stop Stewart

Wallace won a gold and bronze medal at Beijing, Clint Robinson conquered Barcelona, came second in Athens and third in Atlanta, while Grant Kenny teamed with Barry Kelly to win bronze in Los Angeles. The quietly spoken Stewart suggested their common ...

Notebook: Phillingane Gets Hole-in-One

The Men's Golf Association played a Nassau tournament, May 9, with two best balls needed for scoring, on Course No. 3. Overall: David Brown, Ronald Miles, Jack McCall, Mike Wallace, 110; John McPhaul, William Norris, Al Barrick, Charles Oxrieder, 113; ...

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Olympic 10-meter platform champion Mitcham misses cut at US Diving Grand Prix

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida ? Matthew Mitcham of Australia, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the 10-meter platform, missed the cut for the US Diving Grand Prix at the Ft. Lauderdale Aquatic Center on Thursday. Mitcham, who scored a 440.95, came in ...

Americans Finchum, Loukas in position to contend for medal

Reigning Olympic gold medalist Matthew Mitcham of Australia ? who shocked the favored Chinese divers to win the 10-meter platform event in Beijing ? was the most disappointed athlete Thursday. Mitcham, who is rumored to be suffering again from a ...

Sir Ian McKellen signs nude print of diver Matthew Mitcham for London fundraiser

With the Olympics in London this summer, it's only fitting that portraits and photos of gold medal diver Matthew Mitcham will be featured as part of an exhibit in the city for Australian artist Ross Watson. As part of the run-up to the Sept.

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Nine can't Hackett: Why Grant Hackett still has a job

When it comes to sackings, Channel Nine can't Hackett There is clearly no need for Channel Nine to sack Grant Hackett for being repeatedly drunk and out of control. Channel Nine only ditch people who are pregnant or not good looking enough, and Hackett ...

Grant Hackett is shown the door by charity

CHANNEL 9 has stuck by its troubled sports commentator Grant Hackett in spite of the swim legend being sacked as an ambassador for an anti-violence charity. The Alannah and Madeline Foundation announced that Hackett had last week been "relieved of his ...

Hackett sacked from charity role

Former Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett was ditched as an ambassador for an anti-violence charity on Sunday, following damaging allegations about his marriage break-up. 28/05/12 Sorry. An error occured when submitting the form.

Hackett sacked from charity role

Former Olympic swimmer Grant Hackett was ditched as an ambassador for an anti-violence charity on Sunday, following damaging allegations about his marriage break-up. 28/05/12.