Author: rokur
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British PM Cameron disses Romney’s Salt Lake City Olympics
Cat fight! Cameron is mad at Romney for musing that London isn’t prepared for the Olympics, says it is not as easy hosting them in a one of the world’s most busy cities as ‘in the middle of nowhere’. Ouch. See Buzzfeed
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CC photo #208: A flag you won’t see at the Olympics
The Faroese flag “Merkið” (“The mark”), created in 1919 but banned until World War II when the Allied Forces needed to distinguish between sea vessels of British occupied Faroe Islands and Nazi occupied Denmark. Here in use during the 2008 Faroese national youth swimming championships in Vágur, Suðuroy, hometown of Pál Joensen. He’ll swim under…
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Therese Alshammar struggling with a pinched nerve on eve of Olympics
Breaking news on aftonbladet.se via simma.nu/se, at a press conference today it was confirmed that Therese Alshammar suffers from a pinched nerve in her neck, which ultimately could mean that she will miss the Olympics. These last days of camp she has found it difficult to rotate in swimming, an MRI-scan confirming that she has…
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The Curl affair was “The Worst Kept Secret in Washingtonâ€
Read Caps & Goggles: This is all plenty scandalous and distasteful, but that’s not the worst of it. Here’s the part to make you gag: EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW. The worst part about this breaking news is that it’s not news at all – not to the swimmers and coaches and parents who grew up swimming…
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18 police officers successfully save drowning sex doll
Epic, epic headline off Geekologie. “18 police officers in China were recently called into action when locals spotted a drowning woman some 150-feet off-shore in a local river. Except it wasn’t a real woman, it was just a sex doll. ” The crew worked frantically for nearly an hour to rescue the woman, according to…
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North Korea protest at London 2012 flag mix-up
Ouch, an Olympic women’s football match today was delayed after a protest by North Korea when the South Korean flag was accidentally displayed. Source: One News Page