Category: Fun
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Jessica Hardy spins out, crashes car during Toyota Grand Prix
See Swimming World Magazine We all know Jessica Hardy as an Olympic Gold medalist and world record holder. But, this past weekend, the Southern California native set out to prove that she could handle the wheel at the Celeb/Pro Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach. Sorry @toyotaracing that I crashed your car, but I hope…
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CC photo #478: Awesome outfits seen at MU 2013
A scene from the 2013 Faroese Youth Swimming Championships. I smell a bit of Bieber fever here with those JB hearts on the tank top and everything :-)
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DeSantis shocked by the drums at Danish swim meets
Read The Swim Brief Now, I try not to give out too much advice in this blog, but here is one very important piece. When flying to another country, crossing six time zones, and then trying to blow right through the time change on your way to a meet, then pondering whether you could possibly…
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CC photo #470: Me walking a window sill at the KlaksvÃk National 2008
As you see, very gracefully – We were doing a stunt with slow motion replay which meant we had to climb up under the roof, and I don’t like heights. We (the Faroese) have by the way lost our internet connections with the world this evening, because of a ‘surgical strike’ to our internet provider’s…
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Shark scares the crap out of fishing kayaker
So there he was, peacefully fishing from his kayak, when a shark took the bait. NSFW language is understandable.
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CC photo #465: Power failure at the pool today
Major power failure in the Faroe Islands today; here at Toftir we lost it for two full hours. Practice was interrupted but not stopped, cold showers skipped and even that last single sock found :-)
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Meet Maka Onaona, the Spinning Seal
Via Buzzfeed Maka onaona, one of two male monk seals living at the Waikiki Aquarium in Honolulu, enjoys spinning in his pool. Prepare to be hypnotized. Silly, spinning Hawaiian Monk Seal from Brian V on Vimeo.
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Amazon’s Olympics have swimming too, only with piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
Read The Guardian, via Neatorama Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles lurking in the turbid waters below. […] The swimming events all take place in…