Nicole Dawn LivingstoneOAM (born June 24, 1971) is a former Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter in Australia. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She retired from swimming after the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) 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. Livingstone is active in promoting drug-free sports in Australia. She 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 (ASDA), whose mission is to combat drug use in sports. Livingstone still holds the Australian record for the 200 m backstroke, with at time of 2:10.20, set on July 31, 1992 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Notably, she is the only Australian swimmer to have competed in six successive Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal on 9 June1997 for service to swimming as a representative at state, national and international levels.[1] She was known for a period as Nicole Stevenson, when she was married to Australian cyclist Clayton Stevenson. In March 2007, Nicole was appointed the sports newsreader on National Nine News Afternoon Edition. Livingstone is currently on Maternity Leave
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