Year: 2016
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Celebrating British Eccentricity At The 2016 Chap Olympiad
In August, the world’s gaze will fall on Rio de Janeiro for the start of the 2016 Olympics. But a very different kind of games were just held at the 12th annual Chap Olympiad, in the Bloomsbury district of London. Hundreds gathered to celebrate British eccentricity. And show an undying love of tweed and tea.…
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Woopsie: Man Falls Out Of Waterslide, Down Rocky Cliff
This is a video of David Salmon riding a private waterslide at a residence in Austin, Texas when he flies out of the slide and 10 feet down to rocks below. Pfft, and I thought you were a Salmon — you should have just swam back up the slide! David had to go to the…
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Russian Olympic ban upheld by CAS
The sporting world’s highest tribunal has rejected Russia’s appeal against a doping ban for its entire athletics team from the Rio Olympics starting in 15 days’ time. Nathan Frandino reports. https://youtu.be/jx35ssRakJ4
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Second Wave of Reanalysis Reveals Banned Substances in 45 Athletes From Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced today that reanalysis of the second wave of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 has resulted in provisional adverse analytical findings (PAAFs) of 30 athletes from Beijing and adverse analytical findings (AAFs) of 15 athletes from London. The latest results bring the total number of athletes who tested…
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10th Annual Jimmy Kimmel Live Belly Flop Competition
We have a cherished tradition at the show. Every year we set up an above-ground swimming pool, pull a group of confused pedestrians off the street, put them in bathing suits and make them compete in a belly flop contest. This year’s celebrity judges include Olympian Lolo Jones, TV/fashion personality EJ Johnson and our own…
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Mesmerizing Drone Footage of a Seal Swimming Through a School of Fish
This gorgeous video was captured by Le Cut Studio with a DJI Phantom 4 flying high above Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. It shows a lone seal swimming (fishing, really) through a massive school of fish just below the surface of the water. See PetaPixel https://youtu.be/0-7F_fqTT-s
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Quick Guide to Olympic Diving
Everything you need to know about Olympic Diving. When diving made its Olympic debut at St Louis 1904, athletes aimed for the longest jump. Now their spectacular aerial acrobatics are judged to the minutest detail. Men and Women compete in four events, individually or in duos, from 10m and 3m. Watch more Diving: http://bit.ly/2afcgIt
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Don’t Make Heroes ‘Swim Through Sewage:’ Swimmer Warns of Olympic Venues’ ‘Severely Polluted’ Waters
Earlier this month, a group of Brazilian scientists detected a drug-resistant super bacteria in the waters off of the Rio de Janeiro beaches where 2016 Olympic swimming events will be held. This finding came on the heels of an investigation by the Associated Press that found “dangerously high levels of viruses and bacteria from human…
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Katie Ledecky is redefining the limits of athletic performance
It’s hard to describe just how good a swimmer 19-year-old Katie Ledecky is without it sounding hyperbolic. Last summer, Outside magazine described her as “the best athlete in the world right now.” This spring, the Washington Post tried to explain “how Katie Ledecky became better at swimming than anyone is at anything.” The thing is,…