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Hi everyone, I have spent the past few days watching in awe at the performances of my aussie team mates as they tear up the pool in Eindhoven. So many aussie swimmers are doing personal best times, and it’s really exciting to see the rookies (or tyros as they’re now called) competing at their first world champs. Australia, with 11 medals is now sitting...
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Today was one of the proudest days in my swimming career, which is amusing seeing as I didn’t actually get in a pool. At a special team meeting before the ceremony I was named Australia’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony, along with my team mate Pat Donachie. The day started out ordinarily enough, I painted my nails green and yellow accessorised with glitter...
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With Mum and her aunt trude, who lives 20 mins away from the pool. Great to have local support!...
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Thursday 14th Hi everyone, appologies for not posting over the past few days… been a bit busy. We have been in Holland for a week now, and are settling in very nicely. Each day the team trains either once or twice, then there are things like team meetings/massage and physio appointments etc. In the past few days all the other teams have arrived for...
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Hi everyone, It’s been a busy couple of days here in Eindhoven for the swim team. On monday my roomie Esther I and I got to see the competition pool for the first time. We had been training in the hotel pool up until then, because the buses the team hired to get us around had steps so we couldnte get on, and no...
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My green and gold toe nails complete with mini aus flag- great way to amuse myself during boring downtime at the hotel! Day trip to Amsterdam On the train to Amsterdam Our hotel Our accommodation -hotel Konigshoff (translates to kings house) Kara and Kayla ‘rookies’ Arriving at Schipol airport and boarding the bus to our hotel First glimpse of Holland...
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Arrival at Chengi airport, Singapore On the plane to Amsterdam with Teigan Checking in for the flight to Amsterdam Million dollar photo- Chengi airport had a competition to win a cool mil in cash....
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I am sitting writing this from my hotel room in Holland, still amazed that I am actually here after a whirlwind past week. The days before I left were a crazy rush of last minute shopping, packing, training,work,more training and more packing (I even managed to miss my own suprise going away party at work because I was out of the office with a...
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At Schipoll airport, Holland, boarding the bus to our hotel in Amsterdam Our first glimpse of Holland! On the plane with Teigan Meeting up with the team at Singapore airport A million dollar photo- the cash catch and grab.Chengi airport had a promotion to win a cool million! of course we entered....
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I am really excited to hear that you will all have the chance to watch our races over in Holland. The IPC world swimming championships will be broadcase live on the internet. Even more exciting is that ABC2 will be broadcasting higlights each evening. This is the firs time in my 12 years of swimming that n event other than the Paralympics has been...
