Month: April 2013
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Amazon’s Olympics have swimming too, only with piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […] The swimming events all take place in…
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Curious sea lion pup dives into night diving diver’s kayak
… and scares the bejesus out of him :-) See PetaPixel Scuba diver Rick Coleman was getting ready to jump into his kayak and head home, when a sea lion pup jumped up and sat himself (or herself) down on his bow.
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Grant Hackett offers to mentor troubled Aussie squad
Read CourierMail Grant Hackett has offered to mentor troubled swimming stars, including James Magnussen, to help the sport move forward from the London Olympics debacle. “It would be getting together and talking and just opening up the dialogue, so we can understand what is going on. We’ve been through it all before ourselves, there’s a…
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CC photo #462: Herning 2013 poster in tiny LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands
A poster on the door to the 16 meter pool in LeirvÃk, Faroe Islands, photo taking during the “Reysta-stevna 2013” age group meet today. No, I hadn’t arranged this, and was surprised to see that poster in a tiny town pool like LeirvÃk. Talk about inspiration :-)
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Michael Phelps joins Michael Jordan on the golf course for charity
Olympic icon Michael Phelps and basketball legend Michael Jordan teed-off for the 12th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational in Las Vegas on Thursday. http://youtu.be/I8mMwpPR8sg
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Ryan Lochte calls Kim Kardashian a Role Model
“Apparently Ryan Lochte the Olympian is so last summer– this year its all about Ryan Lochte the reality star!” http://youtu.be/7CMIwHgfQzE
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Molalla the baby otter learns to swim (with firm help from mom)
See Today In an adorable video posted to YouTube by the Oregon Zoo, a 2-month-old baby river otter named Molalla gets a swimming lesson from his mother, Tilly. She nudges Molalla close to the water before grabbing her pup by the scruff of his neck with her mouth and plunging into the water with him.…
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Jinja set for Africa’s maiden ice swimming event
Read NewVision – Uganda’s Leading Daily Jinja will go down in history as the first African city to host the Ice Swimming championships due May 11 at the Nile resort pool. The championships will see the water temperature in the swimming pool lowered to about 10° C, a rare phenomenon in Uganda, for the championships…