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  • The world’s most crowded pool ?

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    Covering 30,000 square meters, the ‘Dead Sea’ indoor water park in Sichuan province is said to be the largest in China. According to the Daily Mail, they let it accommodate up to ten thousand visitors at once. I think that is a bit unsafe, rubber rafts or not.

  • Wow, behold the Air Swimmers

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    My Christmas is saved, see www.airswimmers.com.

  • The sex doll swimming craze is spreading

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    Behold the Bubble Babba Challenge, an annual event from St. Petersburg area where participant swim down the wild Vuoksa River while clinging to inflatable sex dolls. We’ve seen this before in Lithuania, where the participants though took better care covering up their partners (Warning, don’t go searching if you cannot handle the occasional full frontal…

  • Wait, isn’t a chef supposed to cook the food ?

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    They did that stunt one time here in the Faroes, serving live Norway lobster at a fish fair, resulting in a police report. Delicious or not, I would never. Ever. Video found here. Ate live shrimp tonight with brown butter emulsion. Crazy but delicious! Noma is insane! @ReneRedzepiNomaless than a minute ago via HootSuite Favorite…

  • The new London 2012 Olympic logo

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    Ouch :-S via Laughing Squid.

  • Met up with Chris DeSantis in CPH today

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    The Copenhagen 2011 international swimming blogosphere top summit went OK, me thinks, with me and Chris coming to a preliminary agreement about how to divide up the world between the two of us. Notice the coffee cups, and follow him on The Swim Brief.

  • They don’t get anything to eat at Noma ?

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    Doesn’t sound like a two star Michelin restaurant ‘best in the World’ to me :-P Just found out I won’t be fed anything to eat until 5pm…starting at 9am. I’m in serious trouble! Gotta do it Haha #Copenhagen #Nomaless than a minute ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-GaleG_WeberGale

  • Hiatus

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    Yeah, it is a bit quiet here. Last news from Pál was that he was lying in the sun somewhere with his girlfriend, listening to Led Zeppelin, reading Dostojevskij and enjoying a gin-and-sprite. I myself am witnessing how the financial crisis is developing in Sweden, forcing them to abandon garbage vans (or whatever :-)

  • Wow, the Speedo Pace Club videos & iPhone app

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    The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like. Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion…