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Category: Fun

  • Shy penguin too scared to swim

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    Despite being a natural-born swimmer, one small penguin at an animal park in Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province is too timid to dive into the water. Penguins do know how to swim, but they have to learn how to climb up ashore, and can have problem with controlling their direction and speed while swimming. To help…

  • Carnaval

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    Interesting effects in this video, GoPros seem to be ever present by now.

  • Ryan Lochte – The Next, Hot Olympian Swimmer

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    Or as they say here on TMZ: “U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s won 6 medals — and even beat Michael Phelps — but that still doesn’t get him a pass for pretending to be the biggest d-bag in the pool. He is pretending … right?” video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

  • Bodysurfing the Boom Boom Room 2012

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    “7-time Olympic gold medalist, Aaron Peirsol, reappers from the mist in this surf video.” Quote Gold Medal Mel on Facebook

  • MSS: Matt Grevers and Annie Chandler

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    Matt Grevers’ surprise proposal to longtime girlfriend Annie Chandler has been the talk of the swimming community for the past week, and the happy couple join today’s edition of The Morning Swim Show to relive the experience. Grevers talks about the planning that went into the proposal, which started last December when he spent time…

  • The First Day of 2012

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    “Hung-over-frozen-lake-dip in the “morning”, followed by much wallowing until still-hung-over-mountain-lake-hockey in the late afternoon.”

  • Two Laps

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    Val and Pete have been swimming together every morning for the past seventeen years. Once a year they have a race, two laps up and back. Two friends. One race. Two laps. No prisoners. Two Laps from Passion Pictures on Vimeo.

  • CC photo #48: Mankoč has a great taste in computers

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    Got to take this photo of Slovenia’s Peter Mankoč in our mutual Rome 2009 World Championships team hotel. One of the great things about going to the big events, is that you get to meet your heroes in person, typically like here because we all need to go to the lobby to have decent wireless…

  • When TV takes over

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    A cartoon comic strip by Danish writer/artist duo Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler, aka Wulffmorgenthaler. Direct link is here, but beware, a lot of their strips are seriously NSFW, in the category that might make even French people blush.