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Did you know... that Australian swimmer Mack Horton won five gold medals at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships?

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Some fact

Jul 28, 2019 - Horton refuses to answer questions over Shayna Jack's positive doping test^[1].

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^ "ABC News: Horton refuses to answer questions over Shayna Jack's positive doping test" (video). youtube.com. ABC News. Jul 28, 2019.

Semi-protected edit request on 9 August 2016 Troll edit remains

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I noticed that the nicknames still includes "the knife" this was not present prior to Aug 7 and I believe this troll edit. Current: | nicknames = "Mack" "The Knife" Should be: | nicknames = "Mack"

Alstar098 (talk) 03:47, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it is legit, I added a source. Gap9551 (talk) 03:54, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Seems legit, presumably from Mack the Knife. IgnorantArmies (talk) 10:09, 9 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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The biography claims that he won the 1500 meter something at the 2016 Summer Olympics, which he CERTAINLY has NOT as of this moment. That event isn't even scheduled until for tomorrow!

It didn't claim that, but I rephrased it for clarity. Gap9551 (talk) 23:59, 12 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] "ABC News: Horton refuses to answer questions over Shayna Jack's positive doping test" (video). youtube.com. ABC News. Jul 28, 2019.

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