stephanie rice

Stephanie Rice’s Champion Fashion Faux Pas

1:48PM Jess McGuire | Last night I received the following email from reader Carol. “I thought maybe you could use these pictures for a comparison as to who looked better. The blonde is Sonia Kruger from Dancing with the Stars. The brunette is our Stephanie Rice – Olympic Swimming Star and now with Ch 7. Maybe it’s the same dress as both women work with the same network. Sonia wore it to the Ladies Lunch on the Wednesday and Stephanie wore it to The Oakes today. I copied the pictures from today’s Herald Sun.” It does indeed seem as though Sonia and Stephanie have similar taste in couture. And it also seems as though you’re psychically in sync with the Confidential gang in Sydney, Carol – only two hours after you sent me your email, they wrote a piece about this very topic! She has not made many wrong moves in the pool but Stephanie Rice’s dip into racewear at Oaks Day in Melbourne yesterday proved to be no gold medal performance More »

A Tale Of Two Swimmers (Or Possibly Three)

11:42AM Clem Bastow | The media just can’t get enough of golden girl Stephanie Rice (which means they also can’t get enough Rice-related headline puns – Rice Steamer! Sizzling Rice! Hot Rice! – could someone who’s a whiz with the old computer make them up a Rice Headline Generator? I fear they’re running out – thanks in advance) and their latest topic of concern is whether or not our Stephanie has been macking with fellow golden god, Michael Phelps – and whether Rice’s ex-bf, Eamon Sullivan, cares. “No,” was the emphatic reply when Rice, flanked by her former Olympian boyfriend Eamon Sullivan, was asked if she’d shared a lip-locked moment at a Beijing party with Phelps, who won a staggering eight gold medals. More »

Playboy Michael Phelps’s New Home Equipped With Olympic-Sized Dating Pool

6:20AM STV | Having taken our stern but loving admonitions against grabbing the first Hollywood opportunity that comes slithering his way, gilled Olympian phenom Michael Phelps appears to be enjoying the scenic route out of Beijing and into the bachelor lifestyle to which his 14 total gold medals entitle him. His ladyfriend roundelay reportedly peaked earlier this week with 20-year-old Australian swimmer and make-out enthusiast Stephanie Rice — herself one of her country’s most celebrated young athletes and naughty Facebook page proprietors: More »

Gold Medal Deathmatch As Rival Networks Try To Ruin Seven’s Party

8:55AM Clem Bastow | It was bound to happen: tired of pumping out ads with a not-so-subtle “just wait until after the Olympics because we’re not going to waste our A game while you’re watching the Greco-Roman Wrestling heats” subtext, Channel Seven’s rivals (which for the most part means Channel Nine, as ABC are too busy being seriose cats and Channel Ten are off packing bowls and hanging ten, or something equally hip and youthful) have started coughing up the mad bucks to get gold medalists on their shows – and, naturally, Seven is pissed. “This is unprecedented, the level of desperation, the underhandedness and ugliness that went on,” a source said. More »

Stephanie Rice For Prime Minister! Aussie Aussie Aussie! Etc!

4:26PM Jess McGuire | At this point, my former nemesis Stephanie Rice could use her time in the pool to simply do a poo, and I for one would stick a flag in it, salute, and begin belting out “We are one, but we are maaaaaaaaaaany…” and encouraging others to follow suit. IT’S GOLD AGAIN FOR STEPHANIE! A touch over two years ago, nobody outside of swimming circles, her family and friends, and maybe those on Facebook, knew anything about Stephanie Rice. Today, among a women’s team of superstars, she is the Australian golden girl, claiming her second Olympic gold medal. More »

Stephanie Rice May Now Appear On As Many Magazine Covers As She Likes

9:16AM Jess McGuire | If there’s one thing I hate more than an athlete being everywhere I turn – on the cover of every publication I pick up, being interviewed on every radio and television station around, haunting my dreams – it’s an athlete who is everywhere I turn and yet never wins gold when it counts. During the Athens Olympics, my seething hatred (influenced by the aforementioned media omnipresence) was directed toward Jana Pittman and Her Bloody Knee. This year, I expected I would make it through the the Beijing Games gripping happily onto my distaste for Stephanie Rice which made itself obvious last week during the “I Have Split Up With My Boyfriend, I Repeat, I Have Split Up With My Boyfriend – Is This Thing On? Do You Need Me To Write Down A Statement Too?” blitzkrieg. But what’s this?! More »

“Breaking Up Is Not All That Hard To Do” Says Stephanie Rice

9:29AM Jess McGuire | Given their Facebook history, I would have thought that a clean break up between Olympic swimmers Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan would have simply involved updating their respective relationship statuses to “Single” or, if still slightly hopeful for a brighter future, “It’s Complicated Until After The Games”. Nevertheless, this bizarrely gripping (it must be gripping someone, somewhere, surely? It’s certainly getting column inches) split is apparently still news and Steph has spoken to the press about how effortless her transition from loved up half of an athletically.gifted couple to single lass-about-Beijing-town has been. World record holder Stephanie Rice today said the decision for her and Eamon Sullivan to split was not a tough one on the eve of the Olympics. Speaking at the Australian team’s training camp in Kuala Lumpur, Rice said she had been surprised her personal life had been getting so much attention in the media. “It wasn’t a tough decision. We made the decision because of the Olympics, so getting so much attention is something we are just going to push aside,” Rice said. “The whole reason that we decided to have a bit of a break was because of the Olympics. “Media talking about it is a little bit draining. But at the same time we both know that we made this decision because of Olympics and being such elite athletes and professionals that we want to do what’s best for us.” Yes, for a couple who allegedly parted ways in order to stay focused on their upcoming performances in the pool during the Olympics, they’ve spent more time out of the water blabbing about their relationship to eager journalists than I would have perhaps liked. KEEP TRAINING AND SHUT YOUR PIE HOLES! WE WANT GOLD GOLD GOLD FOR AUSTRALIA! Actually, I couldn’t care less about the Olympics right now, but I’m sure once the bloody thing starts I’ll become a rabid flag-wearing bogan sports nut. Because the Olympics is a magical time where every couch enthusiast somehow becomes an expert on sports they’ve never participated in (”That hoof totally landed in the water! Call this dressage? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHIIIIIIIIIT!”) and that’s why we love it so. More »

Swimming Australia To Its Charges: “No Facebook For You!”

8:05AM Clem Bastow | 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. 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”. 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. 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? More »