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  • Has Ian Thorpe moved in with James Middleton

    Buzz has it that 2000 Olympics medallist Ian Thorpe Thorpe and James Middleton, the brother of the Duchess of Cambridge, have become flatmates. Thorpe, who was a guest at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding two years ago and has considered the royal family amongst his closest friends since the 2000 Olympics, has spent significant amount of time in London in the recent months, the Age ...

  • Most US public swimming pools contain poop bacteria

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned US citizens that public swimming pool is filled with fecal matter. The researchers from CDC collected water samples from filters at 160 indoor and outdoor pools around Atlanta, and found traces of feces in nearly 60 percent of them, demonstrated by the presence of E. coli bacteria. The agency said that the E. coli bacteria enters ...

  • High School State Swimming Championships Kansas Girls 5-1A

    TOPEKA, Kansas, May 19. HANNAH Angell, a senior at Blue Valley Southwest, was named Athlete of the Year at the Kansas Girls 5-1A Swimming and Diving Championships May 16-18 in Topeka. Her coach, Arvel McElroy, received Coach of the Year honors.Angell set the only state record this year with her 55.58 in the 100 back, taking out Emily Dicus' 2008 mark of 55.84. Hannah, who will be swimming ...

  • Big News Out of Bloomington Hoosiers Steal Duke Divings Drew Johansen

    BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, April 29. VICE President and Director of Athletics Fred Glass announced today that 2012 U.S. Olympic Team coach and 2013 ACC Coach of the Year Drew Johansen has been named head diving coach at Indiana University. Johansen joins the Hoosiers from Duke University where he has served as head coach since 2007. "We believe we have hired the best diving coach in America with ...

  • Andrew Gemmell Haley Anderson Clinch 5K Titles at U.S. Open Water Nationals

    SANTA CLARITA, California, May 19. ANDREW Gemmell (Wilmington, Del.) and Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.) won the 5-kilometer national titles on Sunday to conclude the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships at Lower Castaic Lake.With their victories, Gemmell and Anderson qualified for July's FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. They will join Christine Jennings ...

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The Frighteners

There is rarely a peaceful moment in Peter Jackson's new horror-comedy "The Frighteners." I don't know if there is a single scene in the whole film where the camera stays still for more than a second, and I'm quite positive that never more than a minute transpired before some form of special effects filled the screen. The fact is, this manic send-up of the ghost story genre is almost too manic for ... ...

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  • T2s Matthew Limbacher Shreds U.S. Age Group Mark in 50-Meter Breast

    NAPLES, Florida, May 19. AT the T2 Norris Foundation Meet this weekend, T2's own Matthew Limbacher, just 12 years old, took down the U.S. National Age Group record in the boys 11-12 50-meter breaststroke event.Limbacher clocked a scorching 31.63, nearly a full eight seconds ahead of his closest competitor, to top the sprint breaststroke event. That swim broke a record set well before ...

  • Sinkevich Skvortsov On Song

    After establishing a world season-leading Russian record of 2:08.62 in the semi-final yesterday, Vyacheslav Sinkevich, Volgograd, took the 200m breaststroke crown at nationals in Kazan in 2:09.00. On a day when Nikita Lobintsev set the 100m free pace at  48.18 at the helm of the second semi ahead of Danila Izotov, on 48.23 as the Russian 4x100m builds into a threat, Sinkevich enjoyed ...

  • Speedo Performance of the Week Presented by Pace Club May 14 2013

    PHOENIX, Arizona, May 14. RECORDS were being broken left and right in high school and Masters swimming last weekend, and several of the country's best swimmers were in action at the Arena Grand Prix in Charlotte. A lot of options for us to pick from for the Speedo Performance of the Week.In the end, we couldn't ignore the first of three national high school records broken this weekend. ...

  • Did You Really Expect the Michael Phelps Camp to Confirm His Comeback

    Commentary by Brent RutemillerPHOENIX, Arizona, May 19. CASEY Barrett and Peter Busch got the story right. Michael Phelps is going to come back and compete again for the United States in the sport of swimming. The Associated Press, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, Sports illustrated, Sporting News, and Huffington Post all picked up on their comeback ...

  • China Nearly Sweeps Gold Medals at FINA World Series Diving Meet in Moscow

    LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 29. CHINA largely dominated the three-day competition of the fourth leg of the FINA/Midea Diving World Series 2013 organised in Moscow (RUS) from April 26-28. The only title escaping to the Asian powerhouse in the discipline was on the men's 3m springboard synchro, where Ukraine's pair Illya Kvasha/Oleksiy Prygorov won a thrilling final by a short margin of ...

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