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Swimming Australia To Its Charges: "No Facebook For You!"
Posted by Clem Bastow at 8:05 AM on April 2, 2008
You know, it doesn't sound like much fun being a professional athlete: you have to get up at all hours, swim for kilometres upon kilometres, eat Uncle Toby's muesli bars all the time, and if that wasn't indignity enough, now you can't post stupid photos on your Facebook, either, after swimmer Stephanie Rice's Facebook photos were raided by News Ltd.
Swimming Australia bossmen reckon some of the photos found in swimmers' Facebook albums were "distasteful" and have cracked down on the Dolphins' online activities.
The photos have been a hit on the internet, with The Daily Telegraph online's Stephanie Rice gallery attracting more than 800,000 hits by 6pm last night.Sounds like pretty standard stuff, really - if anyone ever checked out Defamer Australia's Facebooks there'd be no doubt the Tele would be knocking on the door sooner rather than later.Pictures of her poledancing in a white singlet alongside Bronte Barratt were taken at fellow swimmer Jessicah Schipper's birthday party in Brisbane last year, while photos of her in the police uniform were at an event called "BRW party".
Among the comments posted on Nick D'Arcy's Facebook page are remarks from Rice and her boyfriend Eamon Sullivan.
Rice described a picture of D'Arcy, Sullivan and Andrew Lauterstein as "hot boyssss", to which Sullivan replied "damn straight".
But through all this, we'd just like to ask the Dolphins a question Facebook asked us when we tried to disable our accounts for a brief 'holiday': Have you considered updating your privacy settings?
