Ian Thorpe's blog

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Australian swimmer, sometimes called 揟horpedo?or 揊lipper,?he is known as a poised, confident, modest and calm teenager. Swimming from the time he was eight years old, he keeps up practice with about 20 hours a week in the water. His mom, Margaret, is a teacher and his dad, Ken, a gardener. Sister Christina is also a swimmer. A big man, Thorpe抯 size 17 feet are a bit of an embarrassment, though he抯 glad they have now stopped growing. Thorpe has suffered from migraines since he was nine or ten, although less frequently in recent years. He defied the pain and nausea of a migraine to break a world record at the world short-course championships in Hong Kong in 1999. Thorpe had a very difficult four months in early 2000. He had to deal with a broken ankle and was accused by a German swimming coach of being a drug cheat when his drug test was botched in Berlin. In early 2000, there was a swim suit controversy when he featured, in cheeky TV ads for one of his sponsors, one o