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Category: Gossip

  • Behold, Frederik of Denmark and a 100-kilo sunfish

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    While visiting the oceanarium Nordsømuseet in Hirtshals today, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark took time off to don a dive suit and feed the fishes, being the experienced ‘frømand‘ (Danish Navy Seal) that he is. Biggest attractions there are three sunfishes, whereof the biggest called Anton is well above 100 kg in weight. The sunfishes…

  • The US East Coast hit by (massive) earthquake

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    Millions of Americans from Georgia to Canada were jolted Tuesday by the most powerful earthquake to hit the US East Coast in decades. Summer Sanders tweeted about how crazy it feels to be in a swimming pool during an earthquake, while Michael Phelps felt nothing. Ricky Berens felt that he was missing out on something,…

  • Charlene of Monaco makes the International Best-Dressed List

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    Vanity Fair has revealed its 2011 International Best-Dressed List, featuring style icons like Michelle and Barack Obama, Kate Middleton, Justin Timberlake and Princess Charlene of Monaco. Charlene is only one of three royals making the list, alongside Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge and Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser of Qatar. Bartal forced me to post this, with…

  • Obama’s vacation: Reading, swimming and socializing

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    Eat dirt baseball, basketball and whatever, the President swims when he is on vacation. In other news Megan Fox also enjoys swimming, seen here on set of THIS IS 40 with (lucky) Jason Segel and Chris O’Dowd, from her Facebook page. Via USA Today and Just Jared.

  • George Bovell III ‘cheats death’ in car crash

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    According to Trinidad & Tobago’s Newsday, Olympic bronze medallist George Bovell III cheated death yesterday morning after he crashed his BMW car in an accident while on his way to spearfish at an oil platform in Mayaro. He was rushed unconscious to the Sangre Grande District Hospital where he received initial treatment and was stabilised,…

  • Oh my, Prince Albert tried to score Potec before Wittstock ?

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    Romanian media says Prince Albert of Monaco fell in love with Romanian swimmer Camelia Potec at the Mare Nostrum event in Monte Carlo in 2000, when he is also said to have met Charlene Wittstock. The source is Potec’s former coach, Doina Sava, and Potec is said to have admitted that the Prince asked her…

  • Ugh, the Indianapolis Speech Scene will be made into a movie

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    The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk by enemy forces during World War II, with the largest loss of life at sea in US history, as some 300 men went down with the ship and over the next four days another 500 or so died of starvation, exposure, suicide and shark attacks.…

  • 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.

  • Oprah Winfrey finds swimming to be the great metaphor of life

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    “Started out the week taking swimming lessons,” Winfrey said in an email Tuesday night. “Moving beyond my amateur doggy paddle. Learning the breast stroke today”. Admitting that for years she had been afraid of the water, she’s finally learned to go with the flow. “This I’ve known forever is the great metaphor of life,” the…