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Stephanie Rice to carry flag for Australia in closing ceremony

Australian swimming champion Stephanie Rice has been chosen to carry the flag for Australia at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
“He (John Coates) said, I’d really like for you to be the flag bearer and I just thought, oh my gosh. I never even saw that coming at all,” Rice said.
“I feel so honoured [...]

Gold Medal Couple: Michael Phelps and Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice

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Michael Phelps has had a pretty good time at the Olympics, and not just because of the eight gold medals. The New York Post reports that Phelps also has had a good time with another Olympian, Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice.

The gory details:

The pumped-up pair clinched and swapped spit at a celebratory bash outside the Olympic Village.

The Baltimore Bullet swooped in for the lip-lock with the 20-year-old brunette just weeks after she split from Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan. “All the swimmers are talking about it, and [Sullivan] is cut up about what happened,” the source said.

As for Rice, the big news on her in Australia is about, of all things, her Facebook page, which got plenty of attention after she posted pictures of herself that Australia’s swimming governing body told her to take down because they were “too raunchy”:

Swimming Australia media director Ian Hanson confirmed the organisation had taken the step in consultation with the Beijing-bound Dolphins team management.

“It’s something we had counselled them on in the past two years to be careful of,” he said. “Some of the photos were somewhat distasteful and we thought it was best that they took a bit more care.”

Rice won three gold medals of her own in Beijing. Somehow that didn’t get as much attention as the Facebook pictures.

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Australia smashes 4×200 meter freestyle relay WR

The Australian women’s 4×200 meter relay freestyle team has smashed the world record setting a time of 7:44.31.
China came in second to win the silver medal and the United were third.
Australian team:
RICE Stephanie
BARRATT Bronte
PALMER Kylie
MACKENZIE Linda
China team:
YANG Yu
ZHU Qianwei
TAN Miao
PANG Jiaying
United States:
SCHMITT Allison
COUGHLIN Natalie
BURCKLE Caroline
HOFF Katie

Stephanie Rice wins women’s 200m individual medley

Stephanie Rice from Australia has just beaten Kirsty Coventory of Zimbabwe in the women’s 200m individual medley, setting a new world record in the process.
Natalie Coughlin from the United States won the bronze medal. Katie Hoff finished fourth.

Stephanie Rice wins Australia’s first gold medal

Stephanie Rice has won Australia’s first gold medal in the women’s 400 Individual Medley. She did it in a record time of 4:29.45.
Kirsty Coventory from Zimbabwe finished second and Katie Hoff from the United States finished in third place to take the bronze medal.

Sexy swimmer on cover of FHM magazine

After Australian swimmers Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan’s public breakup, Stepanie Rice has appeared on the cover of men’s magazine FHM. Some people are saying it will distract her from her swimming, but I am sure with all of her training and preparation for the Olympics, it will be the last thing on her [...]

Australian hot swimming couple announce break up on Facebook

With just a week to go before the Olympics, Australia’s David and Victoria Beckham – Eamon Sullivan and Stephanie Rice have announced their break up on the social networking site Facebook.
Stephanie Rice was in the media earlier this year for posting raunchy photos of herself dressed in police gear on her Facebook website. The [...]

Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice

Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice seems to have gotten herself in some hot water over some raunchy pics back in April. Wikipedia shows that she was born on June 17, 1988, which might explain some of her youthful misdeeds.Stephanie’s BlogMore Stephanie …