fullname club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title strokes name
nicole dawn livingstone melbourne vicentre melbourne , victoria 65 kg lb on 1.74 m ftin on 24 june 1971 nicole livingstone
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nicole livingstone

nicole dawn livingstone , oam -lrb- born 24 june 1971 -rrb- is an australian former competitive swimmer , olympic silver medallist , and a television sports commentator and radio presenter .
livingstone competed for australia in three summer olympics - 1988 , 1992 , and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals .
she was an australian institute of sport scholarship holder .
she retired from swimming after the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta , united states , and joined the australian sports network nine network as a host of `` nine 's wide world of sport '' , and a commentator for swimming .
livingstone is currently a radio presenter for melbourne station sen 1116 and presenter at network ten and also a panelist and fill in presenter for carrie bickmore on `` the project '' .
she is active in promoting drug-free sports in australia and is involved in the australian olympic committee 's `` live clean , play clean '' anti-doping education program .
she is also a board member of the australian sports drug agency -lrb- asda -rrb- , whose mission is to combat drug use in sports .
she held the australian record for the 200 m backstroke , with at time of 2:10.20 , set on 31 july 1992 at the 1992 summer olympics in barcelona , spain for 16 years .
meagen nay broke the australian record twice at the 2008 australian olympic trials .
notably , she is the only australian swimmer to have competed in six successive pan pacific swimming championships .
in 1995 , the state transit authority named a rivercat ferry after livingstone .
livingstone was awarded the order of australia medal in 1997 for service to swimming as a representative at state , national and international levels .
she was known for a period as nicole stevenson , when she was married to australian cyclist clayton stevenson .
livingstone worked for `` wide world of sports '' as a host of the self-titled program and as a host of sports saturday .
she was host of `` any given sunday '' with mick molloy in 2006 .
in march 2007 , she was appointed the sports presenter on `` nine news pm edition '' .
she was replaced by tim sheridan .
in november 2008 , livingstone resigned from the nine network to work for network ten 's new sports channel one hd which commenced in 2009 .
livingstone 's final appearance on the nine network was on nine 's wide world of sport .
in 2011 , she was a fill in presenter on network ten 's `` sports tonight '' and a panellist on `` thursday night live '' .
for the 2012 london olympics , she and bruce mcavaney provided swimming commentary for international olympic committee 's english language international feed .
in 2014 , livingstone made a cameo appearance on `` neighbours '' , presenting for network ten , after the character josh willis -lrb- harley bonner -rrb- qualified in swimming for the commonwealth games .
livingstone sits on the board of swimming australia and has been the the chief executive of the melbourne vicentre swimming club since july 2014 .
