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Who will win glory at the Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi?

The battles are intense. The stakes are higher!

Geoff’s truly inspiring comeback story personifies the nervousness, doubts, commitment, hard work and sacrifice that sums up each swimmer as they too, like he is doing, go for GOLD and GLORY.

IT’S ANOTHER WORLD BEHIND THE BLOCKS

Geoff and all the swimmers are already in competition zone where the magical moments and tensions caused by competing interests suddenly rise up.

Stolen moments appear when exposed emotions surface unguarded. Obstacles stand in the way. And the strain of ultra hard training takes it toll on bodies and minds.

I was at Boy Charlton pool as part of the FOXTEL Commonwealth Games Sports ambassador group.

FOXTEL will broadcast over 500 hours of live events during the Commonwealth Games and more than 1700 hours in total on six dedicated high definition and standard definition channels.

FOXTEL will broadcast, live and in full, every single session of the swimming (heats and finals), diving, track athletics, track and road cycling, Rugby 7s and gymnastics, during the Games as well as every single Australian men’s and women’s hockey match and every Netball match featuring our Australian team.

Additionally, over the 11 day competition in Delhi, both sessions of Synchronised Swimming, all 10 Medal matches of Tennis, all Gold Medal bouts of Boxing, all Gold Medal matches of Lawn Bowls, all Medal event matches of Badminton, all Medal sessions of Wrestling, all medal sessions of Squash, all medal matches of Archery, Shooting and all Medal matches of Table Tennis will be showcased on FOXTEL’s coverage.

LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN: FOXTEL WILL HAVE 6 DEDICATED CHANNELS…

Available in both Standard and High Definition covering more of the exhilarating Delhi Commonwealth Games action. This means you’ll get to see more Aussie medal winning performances, more choice of events live and in full from the heats to the podium. Plus we’ll have a highlights channels playing the best of the best that you may have missed.

In addition FOXTEL will have all of its coverage available exclusively online: all six channels will be broadcast live at foxtel.com.au/delhi2010 and available to anyone who has access to the channels on air.  This will be complimented with comprehensive online analysis and up to the minute statistics. So you can be in Delhi even when you you’re not at home.

All of FOXTEL’s channels will be interactive with the medal tally, athlete profiles and more at your fingertips so you can fully immerse yourself in The Games. Just press red.  With FOXTEL iQ you can record, pause and rewind live TV – so you’re in full control of all the action and you won’t miss a thing.

Our on-screen TV guide and online guide allow you to plan ahead so you’ll always know when the big events are coming up.

FOXTEL’s talented team of studios hosts, Delhi reporters and Delhi commentators will be providing round the clock analysis exclusively on FOXTEL.

Geoff is now World 3^rd fastest in the 50m Fly in 2010. Geoff swam the Butterfly leg of the 4×100 medley relay and swam a 51.40!

The 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, attracted 336 competitors from 21 countries and served as an early guide to the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Pan Pacs Men’s 50 fly Heats

Australia’s Geoff Huegill paced prelims with a top time of 23.27 (set a championship record) to move into second in the world behind only Spain’s Rafael Munoz, who clocked a 23.15 at the European Championships. South Africa’s Roland Schoeman placed second in 23.41 to move to fourth in the world, while Brazil’s Cesar Cielo took third in 23.48 for seventh in the world.

WR 22.43 MUNOZ Rafael ESP Malaga (ESP) 5 APR 2009

US 22.91 LUNDQUIST Bryan USA Knoxville, TN (USA) 18 JUL 2009

Preliminary Event No. 2

Rank Lane Year of Birth Time R.T. Time  Time Behind

1 4 5 HUEGILL Geoff 1979 AUS 0.67 23.27 CR

2 4 4 SCHOEMAN Roland 1980 RSA 0.62 23.41 0.14

3 3 3 CIELO Cesar 1987 BRA 0.66 23.48 0.21

4 2 6 PHILLIPS Timothy 1990 USA 0.71 23.69 0.42

5 2 5 PATTERSON Mitchell 1986 AUS 0.68 23.80 0.53

6 3 4 SANTOS Nicholas 1980 BRA 0.72 23.82 0.55

7 2 3 KISHIDA Masayuki 1985 JPN 0.64 23.85 0.58

8 3 6 JONES Cullen 1984 USA 0.68 23.87 0.60

9 2 4 LAUTERSTEIN Andrew 1987 AUS 0.71 23.90 0.63

10 3 5 SILVA Glauber 1986 BRA 0.71 24.00 0.73

Pan Pacs Men’s 50m Butterfly Final

August 2010

Results

WR 22.43 MUNOZ Rafael ESP Malaga (ESP) 5 APR 2009 (fast suit)

CR 23.27 HUEGILL Geoff AUS Irvine, CA (USA) 18 AUG 2010 (textile suit)

Final A Event No. 2

Rank Lane Year of Birth Time R.T. Time  Time Behind

1 3 CIELO Cesar BRA 0.65 23.03 CR

2 7 SANTOS Nicholas BRA 0.66 23.33 0.30

3 5 SCHOEMAN Roland RSA 0.60 23.39 0.36

4 4 HUEGILL Geoff AUS 0.69 23.42 0.39

5 8 JONES Cullen USA 0.66 23.50 0.47

6 1 KISHIDA Masayuki JPN 0.60 23.77 0.74

7 6 PHILLIPS Timothy USA 0.72 23.92 0.89

8 2 PATTERSON Mitchell AUS 0.68 23.94 0.91

Men’s 100m Butterfly Final

August 2010

Results

WR 49.82 23.36 PHELPS Michael USA Roma (ITA) 1 AUG 2009

CR 51.47 23.85 CROCKER Ian USA Victoria (CAN) 19 AUG 2006

Final A Event No. 24

Rank Lane Year of Birth Time R.T. Time  Time Behind

1 4 PHELPS Michael USA 0.77 (1) 24.03 50.86 CR

26.83

2 5 MCGILL Tyler USA 0.63 (4) 24.31 51.85 0.99

27.54

3 3 FUJII Takuro JPN 0.64 (6) 24.62 52.12 1.26

27.50

4 2 KISHIDA Masayuki JPN 0.62 (2) 24.04 52.16 1.30

28.12

5 6 HUEGILL Geoff AUS 0.68 (3) 24.16 52.32 1.46

28.16

6 7 WRIGHT Chris AUS 0.73 (8) 24.76 52.40 1.54

27.64

7 1 WU Peng CHN 0.68 (5) 24.40 52.61 1.75

28.21

8 8 PINI Ryan PNG 0.76 (6) 24.62 52.94 2.08

Let’s see what Geoff did at his last Comm Games in 2002.

2002 Gold 50m Butterfly (23.57), gold 100m Butterfly (52.36), gold 4x100m medley, Comm Games, Manchester.

Geoff won silver 100m Butterfly (52.48), silver 4x100m medley at the Pan Pacs, Yokohama 2002

A POWERHOUSE TIME.

Geoff Huegill made a suprise visit to Property Options with Mark Rolton in Sydney.  Mark had invited him along to share the importance of setting goals and seeing them through to completion.  A skill that is necessary in all areas of life including swimming and real estate.

Geoff  shared with the crowd his amazing comeback story from Olympic Gold medallist to tipping the scales at a whoppping 138kg, to being back in competition shape again.  After gaining 45kg during retirement Geoff went back to the pool in a bit to shed weight.  His weight loss saw him rediscover his passion for swimming and through a disciplined schedule he has attained his goal of swimming at the Commonwealth Games in Dehli in October this year.

Geoff and Mark both emphasised that setting goals in swimming was no different to setting goals for our financial futures.  The process is the same and the level of success in both is a direct result of people’s discipline and passion.

“I learnt a lot and I also passed on some elite athlete insights too, because at the end of the day “we all want the best performance from ourselves and our from our time and hard earned money!”

“Thank you to everyone for their kind and generous words of encouragement and I hope they too add gold to their lives at all times.”

FOXTEL’s broadcast of the Delhi 2010 XIX Commonwealth Games begins October 4.

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