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Natalie Coughlin Makes Her Dancing Debut on DWTS Season 9
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We all know she can swim, but can Natalie Coughlin dance, too? We’ll find out tonight on the season 9 premier of Dancing With the Stars. Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin is paired with 5 season veteran and season 1 co-champ Alex Mazo.
I am guessing that Natalie will be the 13th act to perform tonight as according to her Twitter stream her vote number is 1-800-VOTE4-13. Personally, 13 is my lucky number and we will certainly be voting to make sure it is her lucky number, too.
Watch Natalie’s first DWTS interview with Alex on learning to dance and how she thinks she will do from TVGrapevine.com:
Good luck Natalie!
Natalie Coughlin Will Compete On Dancing With The Stars
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Season 9 of the popular ABC “Dancing with the Stars” reality show will feature another Olympic Gold Medalist – Natalie Coughlin. Season 8 was won by Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson and other Olympic stars who have competed in past seasons include Apolo Anton Ohno, Kristi Yamaguchi, Evander Holyfield, Clyde Drexler, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Monica Seles, Misty May-Treanor and Maurice Greene.
The season premiere will be September 21. Natalie Coughlin will be joined by 15 other contestants including Tom DeLay, Donny Osmond, Kathy Ireland, Kelly Osborne, Melissa Joan Hart and more.
Coughlin is excited about having the opportunity not only to learn to dance but also to train hard at something else besides swimming. I know we will be looking forward to seeing what she can do and cheering her on!
Kirsty Coventry Doubles at Santa Clara Invitational
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Kirsty Coventry was just one of 20 Olympians swimming this weekend at the Santa Clara Invitational. The meet is the last stop in USA Swimming Grand Prix series,the last major American meet before the U.S. championships in July and an important meet leading up to the World Championships later this summer.
Coventry won both the 100m backstroke and the difficult 400m IM in yesterday’s sessions. Newcomer Kasey Carlson finished second to Liesel Jones in the 100m breaststroke. California’s Dana Vollmer has won 4 events so far (the competition concludes today) taking the 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly, a relay win, and the women’s 200m freestyle races.
Katie Hoff scratched from Friday night’s finals and all races Saturday after coming down with an illness. It is uncertain if she will swim today.
Sunday’s women’s competition includes the 200m fly, 50m free, 200m IM, 200m back, 800m free and 400m medley relay. You can follow the meet throught Swimnetwork.com and Universal Sports. Swimnetwork.com will provide a LIVE online stream of the finals and the prelims from each day of competition and Universal Sports will broadcast finals footage Friday through Sunday. SwimStarsLive has complete meet coverage as well, including some great photos!
PS – if you are a swimmer you have to check out the Universal Sports swimming page for some of the coolest swim photos taken from under the water plus swim tips such as how to improve your flip turns.
