Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, has been named first ever winner of the Laureus Exceptional Achievement Award.
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Two time Olympic gold medallist Rebecca Adlington has retired from swimming age 23.   Adlington became the first British female to become Olympic swimming champion in 48 years at the 2008 Beijing Olympics with victories in the 400m and 800m freestyle.
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Rebecca Adlington’s tears as she stood on the podium to receive her bronze medal after the Olympic 800 metres freestyle final last month at the London Aquatics centre were not simply because she felt she had let people down, but because she knew this had been her last Olympic appearance.
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By Ian Stafford

Ian Thorpe, the five time Olympic swimming champion whose comeback attempt for the London Games was aborted earlier this year, has said that he expects the British swimming team to celebrate a raft of gold medals this summer.
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By Ian Stafford

Ian Thorpe, the five time Olympic swimming champion whose comeback attempt for the London Games was aborted earlier this year, is predicting a mass of gold medals for multiple champion Michael Phelps.
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By Ian Stafford

For Jazz Carlin it should have been elementary. With less than two months to go until the Olympic Games her focus should have been on the world’s biggest stage, four years of hard work reaching a crescendo. But for the Welsh swimmer, her Olympic dreams hang by a thread.
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  British Olympic medal hopeful Keri-Anne Payne has called on the nation to get behind local athletes, as Team GB prepare for the home games.
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After blowing away the field at the British Gas Swimming Championships, which double-up as selection for the 2012 Olympic Games, Liam Tancock, the national and Commonwealth 100-metre backstroke champion pleasantly greeted the crowd with a smile and a wave.
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Britain’s six-time world champion Mark Foster has ruled out competing in next year’s Olympic Games next year saying he can’t see himself winning a medal.
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Hannah Miley, Jemma Lowe and Michael Jamieson have taken Great Britain's final medal haul from the European Short Course Championships to nine.
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