Category: Fun
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The World Swimming Time Zone is now GMT+8 hours
All the best swimmers in the world are now flocking along the China Standard Time zone, waking up at approximately 7 AM in Shanghai, midnight in London, 7 PM the day before in New York and 4 PM the day before in San Francisco. The Brits are in Osaka, the Americans at the Gold Coast…
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The Jetlev r200 Jet Pack is as cool as it looks
Mount me a camera, and I’m all set for some cool open water swimming coverage!
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Lucky guy catches baseball in a swimming pool full of girls in bikinis
What is this sport, and were do I sign up ?
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Sometimes it is handy to be Tarzan
Funny story here on wbez.org, about Chicago swimming legend Johnny Weissmuller famous for being first man under the minute in 100 meter freestyle, and for his role as Tarzan in the 1930-ies and 1940-ies. In 1958, years after his last movie, Weissmuller was at a golf outing in Cuba when his party was suddenly captured…
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Dutch swimming fan site “Mijn Zwemheld” is something else
I’m deeply impressed by this new Dutch swimming site called “Mijn Zwemheld” (“My Swimming Hero”), launched on Saturday 9 July during the send-off and departure of the Shanghai 2011 World Cup participants from the Netherlands. It is an online platform especially designed for social media, with profiles of currently 44 elite Dutch aquatic athletes, their…
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Jellyfish on a rampage, shutting down nuclear plants in Japan and Israel too
We’ve heard about the Scotland incident, where a swarm of jellyfish forced a nuclear plant to shut down, because they swam into the seawater filters and blocked the cooling. Now SCAQ writes about the same stuff happening in Japan and Israel, I think it is an epidemy!
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Thorpe and Sullivan going head to head in the kitchen
According to The Australian, Ian Thorpe and Eamon Sullivan will be revealing a cooking book each next, Thorpe the “Cook For Your Life” focusing on food he loves while maintaining a healthy, lean body, and Sullivan a more no-nonsense book called “Eamon’s Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining.” So, we present Eamon…
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The moment when Charlene and Prince Albert II said ‘oui’
My dear brother teases me that as royal correspondent for the Swimmer’s Daily, I cannot just quit at the wedding. So here you are, the moment when they married, now we’ll go searching for their honeymoon pictures :-)
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Incredible: Swiss four-way tie for the 50 fly title
At the Switzerland Summer Long Course Championships last weekend, the incredible thing happened that 4 men finished in exactly the same time, resulting in all 4 or them winning the 50 butterfly, with no silver or bronze medalist. The lucky four were Christian Schneiter, Nico Van Duijin, Maximilien Bon and Adrien Perez, all touching in…