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Australia’s glam couple break up
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ASIANAGE on 30 July, 2008 01:25:48
 
Australian swimming’s glamour couple, Stephanie Rice and Eamon Sullivan, has
split up just before the Olympic Games but insist their preparations have not
been affected. Sullivan is the 50m freestyle world record holder and Rice set
world marks in the 200m and 400m individual medley earlier this year, although
the latter has since been eclipsed. Both are considered hot medal contenders in
Beijing. "It was a mutual decision. We decided to take a break to allow us to
focus entirely on the Olympics," Sullivan said on Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur
where the Australian team is training. "If it was going to distract us in any
way then we wouldn’t have made that decision. We’re still friends and I
don’t regret anything that I have done over the past two years." He added that
no one else was involved. Asked if they would resume the relationship after the
Games, he said: "You never know what the future holds but we are not thinking
about that at the moment." Rice, 20, and Sullivan, 22, were hailed as
Australia’s sporting power couple in the lead up to the Olympics.