Category: Fun
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Hundreds brave the 2013 Cheltenham Lido Christmas Swim
See Clouchestershire Echo With temperatures around to around 3C (37.4F), more than 250 swimmers stripped down to brave the freezing pool. The water registered at 6.5C (43.7F), surprising colder than last year’s 7C (44.6F) considering the clear skies and sunny weather. Famous names took to the pool, including Gloucester Rugby’s Dan Murphy and Cheltenham mayor…
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Fancy a ‘perishing’ swim? – ITN coverage of the 1965 Serpentine Christmas Swim
See Channel 4 Covering the news on Christmas Day is always challenging – and was equally so in 1965 when ITN sent their roving reporter John Shearer to Hyde Park to interview [and join] the regular Serpentine race swimmers.
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Happy Holidays 2013
Yeah, a pretty lousy photo of a whale, taken from our car yesterday, near Ãir in the Faroe Islands. Four more sperm whales had gotten themselves almost beached on the banks of HvalvÃk (‘Whale Bay’), here in the Faroes, like those that died a few weeks ago, one ending up exploding. This time the weather…
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Polish Ice Swimming Championships – Chojnice 2013
Polish Ice Swimming Championships – Chojnice 2013 from Jonathan Cowie on Vimeo.
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Overexcited dog jumps in to play with the dolphins
Maverick, you silly boy! :-) Watch this video on YouTube
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Couch interview coming up
As we had plenty of spare time around the Herning 2013 event itself (not), I went to Silkeborg and interviewed two very interesting persons for an hour or so. Sound and videos look okay, but I need to cut a bit, before posting.
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Scary shot of breaststroker by photog friend Pia Ellegaard
So I’m getting good help from photographers Pia Ellegaard and Morten Holck here at the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships, and Pia caught this moment yesterday of whom I think is Hungary’s David Verraszto in the men’s 200 IM final, placing fifth before taking gold in the 400 IM today. He is not rested,…
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Waters of Gold – The official Herning 2013 European SC Champs song now in English
“The official song for the LEN European Short Course Championships 2013 – in the City of Herning – Denmark. Now translated into english to give our listeners outside Denmark a chance to understand the words and sing-a-long Have fun” Watch this video on YouTube