Year: 2012
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London Olympic committee says link only if you’re nice
Another LOCOG internet policing criticism this time on boingboing, pointing to this chapter in the Terms of Use for the London 2012 website: “a. Links to the Site. You may create your own link to the Site, provided that your link is in a text-only format. You may not use any link to the Site…
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CC photo #196: Viva Mare Nostrum
This is my youngest meeting the hot Mediterranean Ocean for the first time, back in 2010. We might go for another (cooler) dip in the North Atlantic Ocean this afternoon (or evening, doesn’t really matter when the sea is at a constant 8.0-8.5°C / 46.4-47.3°F, and sunset not until at about 22:56).
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Great white shark bites surfer in half
A man in his early 20s was surfing with a friend early this morning off the west coast of Australia when he was mauled by a great white shark, which bit him in half. A jet-skier who witnessed the scene described how there was only “half a torso†left of the victim, and that he…
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Lochte and Coughlin need your votes for Most Awesome Bodies in Sports
See this competition on ESPN, Ryan Lochte has already beaten someone called Pauli Bissonnette and Tim Tebow and now has to beat an old soccer player called David Beckham, while Natalie Coughlin has beaten someone named Agnieszka Radwanska and Natalie Gulbis to now challenge Lolo Jones. https://twitter.com/ryanlochte/status/223948462947958784
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Late night drunken swim might bring Dane a hefty fine
A 21-year-old Danish guy will get a fine of up to maybe DKK 70,000 (US$ 11,500) for swimming across the fjord at Aalborg, Northern Jutland, yesterday evening. A witness had alerted the police, triggering a rescue search by boat and helicopter, that resulted in the boat picking the swimmer up near the city of Nørresundby,…
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Lawmakers want ‘made in China’ U.S. Olympic uniforms burned
Nice one via ABC News, the U.S. Olympic committee now promise American made uniforms by 2014. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Buzzfeed Sports interviewing Natalie Coughlin
Read Buzzfeed Sports The Olympics are one of the most exhausting, overwhelming, exciting, crazy experiences you could possibly imagine. There’s a reason I took over a year off after the last one [laughs] — they are draining. There’s so much pressure, so much excitement, and you’re physically exhausted from competition, but there’s just all this…