Category: WTF
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Finnish swimming hall rejects 3-year old boy: Not allowed during ladies-only sessions
Read yle uutiset Patrons of the Rantakylä swimming hall in Joensuu, northeast Finland are perplexed by the rules pertaining to special ladies-only swimming sessions. A local mother recently tried to take her three-year old son to the session but they were turned away and told that only women were allowed. (Image courtesy of Michael Coghlan, CC…
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“Young talented swimmer eats 1kg of beef and 50 shrimps per meal”
Right, I’ll categorize this as it should, read VietnamNetBridge The current meals of Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, Vietnam’s young talented swimmer, in Florida, USA are huge. She has to eat one kilogram of beef, 50 shrimps, a big plate of noodles, a salad plate, nearly one liter of fresh milk, not to mention fruits in…
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Behold these Siberian percussionists playing on a frozen lake
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
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Turkey labels swimming goggles worn during protests ‘weapons’
Read News24 A Turkish court has ruled that swimming goggles and other protective equipment used by protesters during this year’s mass street demonstrations were “weapons”, local media reported on Friday. Demonstrators armed themselves with home-made gear such as masks made of plastic bottles, motorbike helmets and goggles to protect themselves from tear gas fired by…
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Teaching a Syrian Warlord to Swim
See The Daily Beast Photographer Jonathan Alpeyrie, who was recently held captive in Syria for 81 days, recounts the surreal story of being forced to teach a Hawaiian swimsuit-clad local militia leader how to swim. ‘I was holding him like a baby for an hour,’ says Alpeyrie, ‘but by the end he could swim.’ http://youtu.be/XHsOrE2Ossg
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Sperm whale explodes here in the Faroe Islands
So you might have seen this video that went viral this week, now at 1.9 million views since the incident Tuesday 26 November. (Warning, very graphic, as in exploding intestines) The background story is that 4 sperm whales got stuck near the bridge between our two biggest islands, here in the Faroe Islands, Thursday 21…
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Girl ‘forced to swim continuously’, parents face attempted murder charge
Read IOL The parents of a 10-year-old girl are facing charges in a Bloemfontein court for apparently forcing her to practise sport extensively, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Tuesday. The mother of the girl was warned that she could face up to 10 years in prison for the charges she faced, the newspaper reported. The…
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146 Chinese athletes nominated for CCTV Sports Awards, but not Sun Yang
Ouch, see Xinhua Double Olympic champion swimmer Sun Yang was excluded from the voting for China’s top athlete despite a successful record which includes three world championships titles. Sun isn’t on a list of 146 candidates selected on Thursday to run for the prestigious CCTV Sports Awards. The organizers, China Central Television, announced that they…
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I’m A Celebrity 2013: Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington confesses to peeing in the pool
See Nottingham Post Nottingham’s very own Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington shocked her fellow campers last night on ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here when she confessed that she always pees in the pool. Team mate Joey Essex couldn’t resist probing the gold medallist about her swimming secrets during a Snake Rock campsite…