Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice arrives for a promotional event to celebrate the end of the Olympic swimming programme, in Beijing on August 17, 2008. Rice won three gold medals at the Beijing Games and she joined Betty Cuthbert, Shane Gould and Ian Thorpe in equalling the record haul for an Australian at a single Olympics.
Australian swimmer Leisel Jones (R) and her fiance Marty Pask arrive for a promotional event to celebrate the end of the Olympic swimming programme in Beijing on August 17, 2008. Australia's world champion and world record holder Leisel Jones is now Olympic champion after her all-the-way victory in the 100 metres breaststroke final at the Beijing Games. The undisputed breaststroke queen of world swimming made amends for her Olympic disappointment in Athens four years ago, winning just outside her world record in a time of one minute 05.17 seconds. 
Australian swimmer Grant Hackett and his wife Candice arrive for a promotional event to celebrate the end of the Olympic swimming programme in Beijing on August 17, 2008. Grant Hackett signed off from the Olympics after his heartbreaking loss of a third consecutive 1500 metres freestyle crown at the Beijing Games by less than a second. The champion Australian swimmer, who has held the world record for seven years, fell agonisingly short in his attempt to become the first male swimmer to win the same event at three consecutive Olympics.
