Category: Fun
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Cold Power North Bondi Classic
Something going down at North Bondi, see results and stuff at www.oceanswims.com
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Ice Castles
This is something they call The Ice Castles at Silverthorne, located in Colorado, USA. Beautiful, but I’m sure it looks more romantic and warm than it is :-)
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Diving with the deadly irukandji
A funny read, this thing on Gadling Not more than two seconds after reaching the bottom, however, his eyes excitedly bulged and appeared to double in size as seen through the fog of his mask. Slowly, he raised a focused finger at something apparently located behind me. For anyone who hasn’t spent much time underwater,…
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Matt Grevers proposes to Annie Chandler at Missouri Grand Prix
Last night, Olympian Matt Grevers proposed to his girlfriend, fellow U.S. National Teamer Annie Chandler, at the 2012 Missouri Grand Prix. She said yes! :-)
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CC photo #43: The Budapest 2010 lane rope pool
A strange sight in the outskirts of the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships competition area. Wondered for a moment what kind of competition they were up to here :-)
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Tom Daley lip sync video goes viral, proves the world is cruel
There are so many good swimming and diving videos online, some even featuring Tom Daley, but this thing, this thing scores 220,000+ hits in only a couple of days ! :-D (Thanks for the heads-up, Ivan)
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Tom Daley & Team GB lip sync ‘Sexy and I know it’
As Tom Willdridge puts it on the Speed Endurance Swimming Blog: “While swimmers are busy training hard, the divers are dancing about on a beach. Typical.”
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CC photo #41: Geoff Huegill signing autographs in Stockholm
The kids have this fun tradition at the Stockholm leg of the FINA World Cup Tour, ‘fishing’ with their autographs books from the balcony. Here they’ve caught Geoff Huegill, gold winner in the 50 meter butterfly that year (2011).
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CC photo #40: Swedish guy having a ball in ‘Droppy’
A Swedish national team member persuaded one the Istanbul 2009 LEN European Short Course Championships ‘Droppy’ mascots to let him try on the outfit, and then went on a rampage, dancing and posing with people for photoshoots and everything :-)