Category: Fun
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CC photo #17: Don’t dive, Daniel
Just a fun photo from the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, featuring Danish swimmer Daniel Skaaning and (I suppose) Jacek Miciul, coach of Polish double-gold medal winner RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki at Klub Sportowy Korner Zielona Góra. It was that “don’t dive” sign in the background that made me search for the right moment :-)
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Joel, where did my balloons go?
Practical joke on Canadian swimmer Joel Greenshields, member of Canada’s Beijing 2008 Olympic team, while at the 2012 Austin Grand Prix. Those guys obviously had too much time on their hands, while Joel and others won the 4×100 freestyle :-)
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Faroese singer/songwriter Eivør sings “May It Be” for our Queen
Big party this weekend, celebrating the now 40 year reign of our Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. I wasn’t invited, but Eivør Pálsdóttir took down the house with this live interpretation of Irish musician Enya’s “May it Be”. Our DNA reveals that our male ancestors are Norwegian and the female Celts, go figure.
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Stay out of the Water (Creature Feature)
Skrillex SmashUp by Soror Ordo Ab Chao. They’re everywhere !! Stay out of the Water ~ Creature Feature (Skrillex SmashUp) from Soror Ordo Ab Chao on Vimeo.
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Eamon Sullivan nearly drowned as a kid
Australia’s star swimmer Eamon Sullivan could easily have become just another drowning statistic when, as a toddler, he accidentally rode into his family’s backyard pool. It was only the vigilance of his parents that saved him, and now the 26-year-old repays his fortune by helping Royal Life Saving, Uncle Tobys and Barnados teach disadvantaged children…
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Epic 6 pass trick shot in a swimming pool
They are a youth group called The Living Room, and they obviously know that they are good! Even plan to build wells in Mozambique with www.hungerstrike.org, if this YouTube video of theirs earns any money.
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Crazy dude swimming in a septic tank
Yeah, that’s the power I hold, to be able to go straight from ‘the good life’ in Southern California, to some Brazilian guy taking a bog bath in a septic tank.
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Flying Devil Rays
♪ You will get the hang of it, I know it. You will get better and better, I know it. If you keep practicing, you can get better and better as you do it. ♫ (Believe in yourself)
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Penguins play in the snow at the St. Louis Zoo
“You’ve got nothing on us,” say the penguins to all those human ‘polar bears’ out there.