Stephanie Rice recently gained massive media coverage when photographs of her raunchier side from Facebook hit the media. Following this huge coverage she and ex-partner Eamon Sullivan starred in a Davenport Underwear Campaign, after this, her and Eamon Sullivan split to concentrate on the
Olympics, which in turn gained even greater coverage throughout Australia. All of this coverage didn’t go to waste though, especially seeing as Rice has already won three gold medals for Australia after only swimming in three races.

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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will begin on August 8, 2008, and will run for 16 days. Throughout this period, athletes from 203 National Olympic Committees will compete in 28 sports to win 302 gold medals. All these competitions will be held at 37 venues. Six of them are located outside of Beijing in the city of Hong Kong for equestrianism, Qingdao for sailing, and Shanghai, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao and Shenyang for football preliminaries, whereas the remaining 31 are all in Beijing, including 12 new venues, 11 renovated venues and 8 temporary venues.

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