Category: Fun
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Red Bull Jump & Freeze 2013 Georgia
23 teams in various crazy and funny costumes jumped into the ice-cold pool at the Red Bull Jump & Freeze competition held at the Gudauri ski resort. Contestants had to slide from a mountain slope using skies, snowboards or other devices, hit the kicker, and skillfully jump into the freezing pool, which was specially constructed…
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Workout With Rikke Møller Pedersen (Silly Song Edition)
Early morning training in Odense, 6K including a 2:25 broken 200 IM
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We have a winner: Ziphius the Aquatic Drone !
Awesome news on Engadget, for those of us that rooted for Ziphius, the smartphone-controlled aquatic drone :-) Now that our Insert Coin: New Challengers contestants had duked it out and the judges have made their decision, we have a winner: Ziphius. Not only did the bot win $20,000 thanks to deliberation by our judges, but it came home with our…
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Alright, ‘our’ drone Ziphius is in the final (!)
Remember Ziphius, the smartphone controlled aquatic drone? Well, with the help of also our votes, they made it past the semi-final, and are now among the five finalists to be demoed on stage, eligible to win the $20,000 Grand Prize and $5,000 Reader’s Choice Award. Fingers crossed, here is a hands-on video courtesy of Engadget ……
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Famed swim blogger Sander Smørdal national 100m champ 1 year into retirement
Just awesome! His own comment … Just for the record: I never quit. I just took a 12 month long vacation. twitter.com/SanderSmordal/… — Sander E. Smørdal (@SanderSmordal) March 13, 2013 He also won the 50 freestyle
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Woohoo, a mention in the New Yorker (!)
Awesome find by Bartal, from August 2012 … Until he set that record, Sun had flown under the radar. He shouldn’t have—his time from the meet in Australia was a sign he’d dominate in London. But swimming news is hard to come by. I read about Sun’s feat on Swimmer’s Daily, a blog run by two…
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Inside look at the Harlem Shake done by the UGA Men’s Swim and Dive Team
http://youtu.be/Sb_T4u6W1Kg