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SYDNEY, Australia, July 13. IN a year when gay football and basketball players have been at the forefront of the conversation in sports in the United States, swimming Olympic legend Ian Thorpe has admitted that he is gay in a television interview. Speaking with noted journalist Michael Parkinson in ...

SYDNEY, Australia, July 12. IN a matter of hours, five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe will admit that he's gay in a television interview taped recently by renowned Australian journalist Sir Michael Parkinson. Airing at 6 p.m. Australia time on Channel Ten Sunday, the interview will focus on severa...

SYDNEY, Australia, April 8. IN a story more reminiscent of a former rock star who hits rock bottom in terms of substance abuse and the subsequent health issues that arise from that lifestyle, Ian Thorpe's 2014 became even more dramatic today according to various media reports. First, Network Seven r...

By Janelle Miles and Will Swanton, AAP BRISBANE, Sept. 1. LEISEL Jones, the baby of the Australian Olympic swimming team was presented with a memento money can't buy for her 15th birthday on Wednesday. She was given a signed card by her 43 team mates including the likes of Kieren Perkins, Susie ...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 25. IAN Thorpe blasted FINA, the international governing body for swimming, last night for failing to test for erythropoietin (EPO), the blood-boosting drug at the World Whampionships in Fukuoka. The IAAF, the international governing body for track and field, will ...

SYDNEY, Australia, April 30. AUSTRALIAN superstar Ian Thorpe has left the hospital after a three-week stay following a serious infection stemming from shoulder surgery, multiple media outlets including an AFP report. Although his manager downplayed reports about the potential lose of the use of his ...