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1 posted on 04/08/2014 4:53:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Wow. Hope for the best. Terrible situation. You wonder how one can be so mentally tough to compete at that level of a sport and then come crashing down.


2 posted on 04/08/2014 4:55:05 PM PDT by ilgipper
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This is sad. I met Ian Thorpe once when he was in Long Beach for a competition. He was swimming in the lane next to me at the LB Natatorium. He seemed to be a really nice guy.


3 posted on 04/08/2014 4:59:21 PM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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The five-times Olympic champion reportedly contracted the bug after surgery at a hospital in Switzerland, where he now lives.

Switzerland seems to be a popular place for Australian athletes to avoid taxes.

6 posted on 04/08/2014 5:30:16 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Poor guy.

BTW, idiot “journalists”, there is no such word as “disorientated”.


8 posted on 04/08/2014 6:14:04 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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