Category: Fun
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Symmonds tries for the beer mile world record (and fails)
Hopefully not swimming related (now, that would be an *evil* record), but here is track runner Nick Symmonds trying to break the “beer mile” world record, in which a runner has to chug a beer at quarter-mile intervals. He finished in 5:19, 10 seconds short of the world record of 5:09 set by Canadian marathoner…
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Video: Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry race each other at that Vegas pool party
Behold Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte and Prince Harry third-in-line-to-the-throne-of-Britain racing each other in a Las Vegas pool over the weekend. Breaststroke, heads above water. See for instance Popsugar and the NY Daily News Here is another video also showing the start, apparently there was a third swimmer also, maybe the judge? Later, Prince Harry also…
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Video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk
Here at last, the video from the 2012 Swim Across the Bay of KlaksvÃk, last Saturday, my daughter filming the start with our GoPro and then me trying to get steady shots on the rocking fish farm ring that was the finishing line.
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Sea Swimming
Here the Siobhan McKenna Cup in Ireland, 11 August, 2012. They sure took their sweet time to get in the water. Sea Swimming from Afric Creedon on Vimeo.
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British Gas Super Swimmer Challenge
Do you have what it takes to live the life of a professional swimmer? Could you handle the training, the strict diet regime, the media attention and the pressure of competition? Take the British Gas Super Swimmer Challenge between 29 August and 12 October 2012 to find out and you could win a day with…
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Ryan Lochte on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Wow, Lochte on the grills controversy at London 2012: “I put them in right before I was walking out, and they said ‘we’ll strip you from your gold medal if you go up there’”. The grills might be cheesy, but oh my IOC / FINA, that is *really* classy of you. Wow. Part 1 Part…
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Behold the annual water war of KlaksvÃk
A tradition at “Sjómannadagurin” (Seamen’s Day) in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, equipping kids with ordinary water guns to challenge big boys with fire hoses. The water is cold, the warning always, “Don’t expect to stay dry!” :-)
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Humpback whale breaching startles kayakers, boaters, pelicans
A woman kayaking in the middle of a California bay has captured the moment a massive whale unexpectedly breached just meters away from her daughter. 9News via Arbroath A few days later, a 69-year-old retired high school biology teacher spent an hour taking amazing pictures of a humpback whale rising from the water also off…