Category: WTF
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Scott Miller escapes drug dealing charge, admits he ran an escort service
Read South Burnett Times and ABC Retired Olympic swimmer Scott Miller has escaped a drug dealing charge and will instead be sentenced for drug possession early next year. During a special hearing on Monday, the Sydney District Court heard the former champion and medalist was allegedly mixed up in hard drugs and prostitutes. http://youtu.be/AKHnk57hgpM Scott…
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Usain Bolt claims he ate 1,000 Chicken McNuggets during the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Read The Independent Diets can be of paramount importance to a sportsman – Novak Djokovic’s grand slam success is based on a strict gluten free one, WBO welterweight champion Tim Bradley defeated Manny Pacquiao on a trusted vegan one, and Usain Bolt at the 2008 Beijing Olympics…he powered to three gold medals fuelled by Chicken…
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A not so appropriate Hyundai commercial featuring Sun Yang
They must be pissed he drove a Porsche. Or not ?
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Man who jumped into freezing cold sea ‘probably saved by beers’
Oh no, crazy British news that will probably make a lot of us drink beer, ‘just in case’ A man left close to death after leaping from the Herne Bay pier into the sea may have been saved by the eight beers he drank before jumping. He and a pal stripped to their underwear and…
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Lifeguard Fired After Swimmer Rescue
A story from back in 2012. And crazy. “Lifeguard Tomas Lopez helped save a drowning man and got fired for it. The reason: He left the section of a south Florida beach his company is paid to patrol. The Orlando-based company, Jeff Ellis and Associates, says Lopez broke a company rule and could have put…
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Doha 2013 World Cup stop accused of erasing Israeli flag
Read for instance Israel Today and SwimmingWorld Israeli swimmers participating in the FINA Swimming World Cup in Doha, Qatar this week were publicly presented as nation-less competitors both by the announcer and in the live television broadcast. When the Israelis were announced, they were labeled as coming from the nation of “ISR.” A similar snubbing…
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Yamamoto Corp launches anti-radiation swimwear for Fukushima workers
Read for instance RT and see yamamoto-bio.com Designed in an effort to protect Fukushima clean-up workers, Osaka-based swimwear company Yamamoto Corporation unveiled the anti-radiation garments on Thursday. The company claims that the wetsuit made from stretchy rubberized kneaded carbon can stop 100 percent of beta radiation. The swimwear – which weighs only three kilograms –…
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Dubai 2013: Norway changeover 0.01 sec too fast. Twice.
On the first day of the FINA 2013 Swimming World Cup meet in Dubai, Norway was disqualified from a bronze medal in the mixed 4×50 medley because of a changeover that was 0.01 too fast. On the second day of the meet, Norway was again disqualified in the mixed 4×50 free final, because of a…
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Are 512 pushups too many for a swimmer? A Missouri jury says no
Read The Wichita Eagle Five hundred twelve pushups. Twice. That’s 1,024 pushups. Alexandra “Ali†Swee, now a Memphis, Tenn., college student, says she was told to do them one night five years ago during a Blue Springs practice when she was a 13-year-old member of the Kansas City Blazers swim club. She contended the excessive…