Category: Fun
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Shameless promotion of Faroese knitwear (and women)
Warning, this post has absolutely nothing to do with swimming, but everything with where I and my brother Bartal come from. You might have heard about the sweater in the Danish award winning TV series ‘Forbrydelsen’ (‘The Killing’), it is Faroese from Guðrun & Guðrun, while the knitwear in this video is designed by Jóhanna…
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Team GB girls model for charity ahead of 2012 Olympics
In between training for London 2012, female members of team GB including synchronised swimmer Jenna Randall have taken time out to pose for the Nichole de Carle London 2012 charity calendar, celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games with all profits going to Wellbeing of Women. Bless their hearts, go buy that calendar here on nicholedecarle.com!…
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Ashrita Furman is The Record Breaker
Ashrita Furman a.k.a. “Mr. Versatility” has set close to 400 world records now over the last 32 years, beginning with 27,000 jumping jacks in 1979, and including stuff like walking 32.9 miles in 1989 with a milk bottle on his head, balancing 57 glasses on his chin in 1996, sack racing 10 kilometers in 1…
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Non-slip Arena WoW soles “Walk on Water”
WoW is a non-slip “Walk on Water” outsole technology that gives your Arena sandals a ‘perfect grip’ no matter if the floor is wet or not. Exciting video, for a moment I wondered if they’d chase each other into (onto?) the pool, but (spoiler alert:) no such luck! :-)
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Aussies to take the underwater ironing world record back from the Dutch
So there is a “Underwater Extreme Ironing” battle going on that many of us haven’t heard of, between Australia and the Netherlands and UK, Poland, New Zealand and probably other countries too. The Netherlands hold the record of 173 scuba divers ironing underwater simulteneusly in March, but now Australia wants the record back, aiming for…
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Garrett Weber-Gale enjoying himself at the Next Restaurant
Food connoisseur Garrett Weber-Gale has been out visiting the Next Restaurant Chicago, ‘explorers of world cuisine’. Looks like a fun ride, with something in a cardboard box, drawing on your plate, meal packed in a WWF thermos, sweet potatoes on fire and ice to be licked off a beater. And it was great, he tweets.
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Dear Jón, you can have that tattoo now !
Very internal joke, so much that he doesn’t even know about it! Got this picture from Jón before the 2011 Duel in the Pool finals this evening, and my first thought was “Jón, don’t get that tattoo!”. Reflecting on the miserable performance of the Europeans, yesterday evening. He told me that it was jet lag…