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Gold Medal Couple: Michael Phelps and Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice

Posted Aug 22nd 2008 11:43AM by Michael David Smith (author feed)
Filed under: USA
Michael Phelps has had a pretty good time at the Olympics, and not just because of the eight gold medals. The New York Post reports that Phelps also has had a good time with another Olympian, Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice.

US star Michael Phelps and Aussie gold medalist Stephanie Rice Relationship Status: Rumored to have "swapped spit" at a party outside the Olympic Village.

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The gory details:

The pumped-up pair clinched and swapped spit at a celebratory bash outside the Olympic Village. The Baltimore Bullet swooped in for the lip-lock with the 20-year-old brunette just weeks after she split from Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan. "All the swimmers are talking about it, and [Sullivan] is cut up about what happened," the source said.

As for Rice, the big news on her in Australia is about, of all things, her Facebook page, which got plenty of attention after she posted pictures of herself that Australia's swimming governing body told her to take down because they were "too raunchy":

Swimming Australia media director Ian Hanson confirmed the organisation had taken the step in consultation with the Beijing-bound Dolphins team management. "It's something we had counselled them on in the past two years to be careful of," he said. "Some of the photos were somewhat distasteful and we thought it was best that they took a bit more care."

Rice won three gold medals of her own in Beijing. Somehow that didn't get as much attention as the Facebook pictures.