Category: WTF
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Schubert hired investigator to watch rival coach
Update: SwimmingWorld Magazine has obtained new details that dispute the claims in the OCR article mentioned below. Eight-time U.S. Olympic swim coach Mark Schubert confirmed that he and longtime Orange County swim coach Bill Jewell were involved in the 2010 hiring of a private investigator to conduct surveillance of a rival Orange County swim coach…
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Crocodile Quest – Divers Swim With Crocs
“It’a the ultimate adrenalin rush! The Earth Touch dive team goes all out to swim as close as possible to a Nile crocodile. Will they live to tell the tale?” Adrenalin Rush! Divers Swim with Crocs… by EarthTouch
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Man arrested at swim meet says Justin Bieber brain-wave message led him there
Read Chicago Sun-Times Lawrence E. Adamczyk, 49, told police that he took a train from Rockford to Brookfield on Saturday morning, intending to go to Brookfield Zoo and look for young boys to have sex with, according to a news release from Brookfield Police. But when he walked by Riverside Brookfield High School, he told…
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African swimmer, 18, claims asylum after fleeing London 2012 Olympic village to escape arranged marriage with a 60-year-old man
Read MailOnline Swimmer Ayouba-Ali Sihame, 18, represented the tiny African island nation of Comoros during the London Games. But she ended up in a prison cell after fleeing the athlete’s village in a desperate bid to avoid being wed to a twice-married 60-year-old man. Her mother told her she was being sold and must give…
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Eight Rounds Rapid – Channel Swimmer
Okaay – that wasn’t what I expected at all! :-) Eight Rounds Rapid – Channel Swimmer from Greek Street Studios on Vimeo.
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Tom Daley’s Mum Hits Back At British Swimming Boss
As you might have read for instance on Inside the Games, British Swimming’s CEO David Sparkes has critized Olympic swimmer diver Tom Daley for agreeing to front the new diving reality show Splash!, saying his ambitions to work in television could hamper his diving carreer. Daley’s coach Andy Banks hit back, and Daley’s synchronized partner…
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Speedo can’t be very happy with the product placement here
Ouch, off Nothing To Do With Arbroath Jimmy Savile spent “every waking minute” of his life thinking about abusing children, attacked patients in hospices and even used the final edition of the BBC’s Top of the Pops to commit sex offences, police disclosed yesterday.
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Every national anthem at once, combined
This monster was created by taking recordings of every national anthem in the world and playing them beside each other, so that they all end together (or, to be more exact, so that they all end with their final crescendoes occurring simultaneously, in one giant mega-crescendo). As mentioned on Laughing Squid, ‘No wonder why we’re…