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Monday, January 17, 2011
Stephanie Louise Rice OAM (born June 17, 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. Currently holds the world record in the 400 m medley of individual women, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl of San Pedro West Swimming Club in Brisbane. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on January 26, 2009.
Rice was the gold medalist in the 200 individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. In the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200 individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous record of Australia for a second.
Rice attended Clayfield College in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland. She was linked romantically with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world record holder Eamon Sullivan. They finished their two-year relationship in July 2008, just before the Beijing Olympics. The couple lived in separate states of Australia (Western Australia Queensland Sullivan and Rice) and said the stress of living so far and the upcoming Olympic Games as a result of the breakup, but acknowledged that the two are still good friends.
In September 2010, Rice was attacked when using Twitter as a response to the defeat of the Wallabies, the Springboks, using the word "faggots". Rice, then remove the remark and apologized for it, however sponsor Jaguar broke relations and requested the return of a vehicle loan.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
Flávia Delaroli (born December 28, 1983 in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is an Olympic and National Record holding freestyle swimmer from Brazil, who won the silver medal in the women's 50 m freestyle at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
A resident of São Paulo, she also represented her native country at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
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Jennie Lynn Finch is an American softball player who pitches for the USA national softball team. The team won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Although she is listed on the roster as a pitcher, Finch sometimes plays first base. She is regarded as the most famous softball player in history.
Finch married Major League Baseball pitcher Casey Daigle on January 15, 2005. Daigle proposed to Finch on the softball field at the University of Arizona, her Alma Mater.
According to Finch, "He blindfolded me and took me to the mound and said, 'You have been the queen of the diamond for four years. Now I want you to be the queen of my heart."
Finch appeared on season one of Pros vs Joes on Spike TV. Finch appeared on an episode of The Real Housewives of Orange County, which aired on December 18, 2007.
Finch was featured as a contestant on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008. She was fired by Donald Trump on January 24, 2008. Finch pitched for the National League in the 2010 Legends and Celebrities Softball Game, at Angel Stadium.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (born 7 June 1981) is a Russian professional tennis player and model. Her celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis players worldwide.
At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on the Internet search engine Google.
Although also successful in singles, reaching No. 8 in the world in 2000, Kournikova's specialty has been doubles, where she has at times been the World No. 1 player.
With Martina Hingis as her partner, she won Grand Slam titles in Australia in 1999 and 2002. Based on their looks, Hingis and Kournikova facetiously referred to themselves as the "Spice Girls of Tennis"
Kournikova's professional tennis career has been curtailed for the past several years, and possibly ended, by serious back and spinal problems. She currently resides in Miami Beach, Florida,[1] and plays in occasional exhibitions and in doubles for the St. Louis Aces of World Team Tennis.
Anna Kournikova and boyfriend Enrique Iglesias betted that they will water-ski naked in Miami if Spain wins FIFA which they did.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a former World No. 1 Russian professional tennis player. She has won 3 Grand Slam titles (2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open, and 2008 Australian Open). She was also runner-up at the 2007 Australian Open.
Sharapova was born in 1987 to Yuri and Yelena, ethnic Belarusians, in the town of Nyagan in Siberia, Russia. Her parents moved from Gomel, Belarus after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 affected the region.
Sharapova made her professional breakthrough in 2004 when, at age 17, she upset two-time defending champion and top seed Serena Williams in the 2004 Wimbledon final for her first Grand Slam singles title. She entered the top ten of the WTA Rankings with this win.
Sharapova's tennis success and appearance have enabled her to secure commercial endorsements that greatly exceed in value her tournament winnings. In April 2005, People named her one of the 50 most beautiful celebrities in the world.
In 2006, Maxim ranked Sharapova the hottest athlete in the world for the fourth consecutive year. She posed in a six-page bikini photoshoot spread in the 2006 Valentine's Day issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, alongside 25 scantily-clad supermodels.
In a poll run by Britain's FHM magazine, she was voted the seventh most eligible bachelorette, based on both "wealth and looks."
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