Gold Medal Couple: Michael Phelps and Australian Swimmer Stephanie Rice

Michael Phelps has had a pretty good time at the Olympics, and not just because of the eight gold medals. The New York Post reports that Phelps also has had a good time with another Olympian, Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice.

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The gory details:

The pumped-up pair clinched and swapped spit at a celebratory bash outside the Olympic Village.
The Baltimore Bullet swooped in for the lip-lock with the 20-year-old brunette just weeks after she split from Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan. "All the swimmers are talking about it, and [Sullivan] is cut up about what happened," the source said.

As for Rice, the big news on her in Australia is about, of all things, her Facebook page, which got plenty of attention after she posted pictures of herself that Australia's swimming governing body told her to take down because they were "too raunchy":

Swimming Australia media director Ian Hanson confirmed the organisation had taken the step in consultation with the Beijing-bound Dolphins team management.
"It's something we had counselled them on in the past two years to be careful of," he said. "Some of the photos were somewhat distasteful and we thought it was best that they took a bit more care."

Rice won three gold medals of her own in Beijing. Somehow that didn't get as much attention as the Facebook pictures.

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BEIJING - AUGUST 19: Stephanie Rice and Michael Phelps relax at the Speedo Sports Club at the Jintai Art Museum on August 19, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Getty Images for Speedo) *** Local Caption *** Stephanie Rice;Michael Phelps

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Australian swimmer's Eamon Sullivan (L) Lisbeth "Libby" Trickett (2nd L) Grant Hackett (2nd R) and Stephanie Rice (R) attend a photocall for the Speedo Athlete Media Day during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 19, 2008. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

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Australian swimmer Stephanie Rice (L) and US winner of eight swimming gold medals Michael Phelps are pictured during a photocall for the Speedo Athlete Media Day during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 19, 2008. AFP PHOTO/TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

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US swimmers Katie Hoff (L) and Dara Torres (R) arrive for a promotional event to celebrate the end of the Olympic swimming programme in Beijing on August 17, 2008. Hoff's ambitious six-event programme at the Beijing Olympics ended without yielding a gold medal as she failed to qualify for the final of the 800m freestyle. She was pipped for gold by Adlington in the 400m freestyle and settled for bronze in the 400m medley as Australian Stephanie Rice reclaimed the world record from the American, and nabbed a bronze in the 4x200m freestyle relay. Torres won silver in the 50-meter women's freestyle event. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

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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. AFP PHOTO/Mark RALSTON (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Australia's Stephanie Rice (L), Bronte Barratt (R) and Kylie Palmer celebrate after Linda Mackenzie finished first during the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay swimming final at the National Aquatics Center during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 14, 2008. Australia set a new world record in the women's 4x200 metres freestyle relay with a time of seven minutes 44.31 seconds in the final at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday. The United States held the previous record at 7:50.09 at last year's world championships in Melbourne. AFP PHOTO / DDP / MICHAEL KAPPELER (Photo credit should read MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/Getty Images)

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Australia's Stephanie Rice (R), Bronte Barratt (C) and Kylie Palmer celebrate after Linda Mackenzie finished first in the women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay swimming final at the National Aquatics Center during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Beijing on August 14, 2008. Australia set a new world record in the women's 4x200 metres freestyle relay with a time of seven minutes 44.31 seconds in the final at the Beijing Olympics on Thursday. The United States held the previous record at 7:50.09 at last year's world championships in Melbourne. AFP PHOTO / DDP / MICHAEL KAPPELER (Photo credit should read MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/Getty Images)

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