Year: 2011
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Face Your Fears – Water
Someone has peed too much in that pool Face Your Fears – Water from Changing Faces on Vimeo.
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The ‘dictatorial’ nature of swimming is to blame for Monk’s lie ?
Wow, swimming commentator and retired Australian Olympic swimmer Nicole Livingstone blames the “dictatorial” nature of our sport for the elaborate lie that Kenrick Monk came up with on Wednesday, saying he was a victim of a hit-an-run accident when all that happened was that he broke his arm from falling of a skateboard. “Having been…
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Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado
For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…
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Did a seal save Cohen from being killed by the great white ?
British resident Michael Cohen was attacked within seconds of plunging into the water at Fish Hoek near Cape Town last Thursday, by a great white that ripped a good part of his right leg off and badly mauled this left foot. Two quick-thinking pensioners saved him by tying a makeshift tourniquet made of the leg…
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Police Union furious with Kenrick Monk
Australian swimming star Kenrick Monk has wasted police time by lying about the incident that caused his broken elbow, the Queensland Police Union says. Union presiden Ian Leavers goes as far as saying that Monk’s lies has caused immense damage to himself, his family, friends and the sport of swimming. “The public rightly expect that…
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Danish reporter tries to re-read story about ‘dry swimming’ without laughing (and fails)
Sorry for those of you that don’t understand Danish, but this is hilarious. Anders Breinholt host of the comedy show ‘Natholdet‘ watches a news segment about ‘dry swimming’ together with Danish prime minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, where the reporter cracks up when realizing what he is reading from the teleprompter (that some Danish schools are…
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Sei whale found beached 800m inland on a field in Yorkshire
Experts believe it is a female Sei whale that became stranded after being carried up the north bank of the Humber Estuary by an exceptionally high tide while looking for food. Making contact with the bottom it has rolled onto its side and covered its blow hole, resulting in suffocation. Read for instance The Telegraph