Stephanie Rice

By Ines Mendoza
Gallery : Stephanie Rice

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How time flies, it seems like only yesterday we were readinging ourselves for the 2008 Olympics, and before you can say Jack Frost - the 2012 London games are about to bite us on the back of the skull.

New Olympics means one thing. No, not sporting quality. Or record breaking. Olympics means hot young girls that will be exploited for their minimal sporting skills.

Nothing makes another human being more visaully attractive than fame.

Honestly - just look at the likes of Bill Murray, Jack Black and pretty much anyone from the cast of Superbad. If these guys weren't setting the box office on fire, their level of "lady lovin" would be quite seriously diminished.

So it's great to see an Aussie hitting the fame game - thanks to skill alone... and real-life sext to boot.

Stephanie Rice, born a Queenslander in June of 1988, shot to fame as an Australian swimmer - taking home a swag of gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games. From there, her future was set in stone (as was her bank account!).

The feisty Rice attended Clayfield College in Brisbane during her high school years. Her youthful lifestyle often exploited throughout the press, thanks largely to the social networking site - Facebook - with lurid pictures of Stephanie dressed up in "sexy outfits" splashed across newspapers throughout the country.

"Girls" may just "want to have fun" - as the old saying goes - but it seems that if it's Olympic fame to seek, "fun" has to be significantly less scantily clad.

Romantically linked with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world record holder Eamon Sullivan (seen in pictures below), the two ended their two year long relationship in July of 2008 (just prior to the Beijing Olympics).

Reports suggested that due to living in separate states (Sullivan in Western Australia and Rice in Queensland) the impending Olympics caused the split of Australia's first major sporting "Glamour Couple".

Rice first shot into the public eye at the age of 18 when she took home a gold medals in the 400m individual medley, as well as the 200 metres Individual Medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia (in which she beat out fellows Aussies Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll).

The 2007 Melbourne World Championships were just as eventful - withe the brunette taking home a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley as well as a bronze medal in the 400m individual medley final.

The 2008 Australian Olympic trials proved to be a sign of things to come for Rice, who broke the world record in the 400 metre, stopping the clock at 4.3146 (for those counting - thats just 1.43 seconds off American Katie Hoff).

However, the record didn't last for long - with Hoff reclaiming the title at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials with a time of 4.3112. Undettered, Stephanie Rice went onto claim her second world record of the meet, breaking the 200 metre individual medley world record, clocking in at two minutes and 8.92 seconds.

Things really started to fall into place at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in which Stephanie Rice won her first-ever Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games and its 400th summer Olympic medal.

Not bad for a girl from Brissie!

She won the 400 metre individual medley in a time of four minutes and 29.45 seconds. In doing so she reclaimed the world record from Katie Hoff, therefore becoming the first woman in history to break 4 minutes and 30 seonds in the event.

But Rice didn't stop there...

She took home a second gold medal in the 200m individual medley with a yet another world record time, as well as a third gold as part of the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team.

Shooting into the public spotlight Rice was quickly snapped up by Australian newtork, Channel Seven, for a reported $800,000 over a two year period in which she is unable to appear on any other network.

All of this - and barely a legal adult!

n September 2010, Rice came under fire when she made a homophobic remark on Twitter following a Rugby Union match in which the Australian Wallabies defeated the South African Springboks. Rice's Twitter message said "Suck on that f****ts!".

Rice later removed the remark and apologised for it, however Rice's sponsor Jaguar severed all ties with her and requested the return of a loan vehicle.

She is currently dating Australian rugby union player Quade Cooper.

If only we were all that lucky... and talented....

Stephanie Rice - Photo Gallery

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