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1. Former Olympic swimmer Susie O’Neill says she ‘inspired culture of sleeping tablet use’.
Former Australian Olympic swimmer and gold medal-winner Susie O’Neill has told Bruce McAvaney she took Temazepam – which is used to treat insomnia – the night before the 200-metre butterfly at the 2000 Sydney Olympic games.
O’Neill, who was known as Madame Butterfly, made the admission during an interview for Olympians: Off the Record, which will air on 7Two on Monday night.
“I don’t want to say I’m the cause, but I think I did start that culture of sleeping tablets,” she said.
In a statement to News Corp Australia via her management, O’Neill distanced herself from the comments, saying she took sleeping tablets on one occasion during 2000.
“My use of the word culture in this context is probably not the best use of word. It’s more that it became something that officials and team doctors were more conscious of managing as part of athlete preparations following the Sydney Games.” she said.
2. Two teenage girls have been charged with attempted murder in Brisbane.
Two girls aged in their late teens have been charged by police following a stabbing this week and are due to appear in the Pine Rivers Magistrates Court today.
The ABC reports that the pair – aged 19 and 17 – broke into a home in Warner, north of Brisbane, on Wednesday morning. It is alleged that they then stabbed a 16-year-old girl living in the home.
Their alleged victim was taken to the Royal Brisbane hospital with stab wounds to the chest, later undergoing surgery.