Five-times Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has revealed he is gay in a tell-all TV interview.
Australia’s most decorated Olympian, swimmer Ian Thorpe, has been booked into intensive care with two potentially deadly infections.
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s addiction has been handled with pity, but swimmer Ian Thorpe has been lambasted despite uncertainty about his health.
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/ 8 November 2011
Ian Thorpe’s comeback to competitive swimming has suffered a setback in Beijing, but he says he is "pretty happy" with his results so far.
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/ 4 November 2011
Ian Thorpe has said he was glad he made a successful return to international swimming in Singapore after a five-year retirement period.
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/ 3 November 2011
Former Olympic swimming champion Ian Thorpe has admitted he’s nervous as he prepares for his first competitive race in five years.
Five-time Olympic freestyle champion Ian Thorpe announced his return to swimming for the 2012 London games on Wednesday.
Retired swimming great Ian Thorpe has dismissed American Michael Phelps’s bid to best Mark Spitz’s record haul of seven golds at an Olympic Games.
In non-Olympic years, Natalie du Toit spends a lot of time giving motivational talks to schools, companies and churches in South Africa. She talks of her life, how everyone should have a goal and tells her audience they should never give up on their dreams. This year Du Toit has concentrated on fulfilling her childhood dream — swimming at the Olympics.
Police began an unprecedented security crackdown in Australia’s national capital, Canberra, on Wednesday to protect the Olympic flame from protests during the latest leg of the torch’s troubled journey around the world. China had hoped the torch’s progress would be a symbol of unity in the run-up to the Beijing Games.