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Behold the Olympico theme song
Matt Mulholland performing the most awesome theme song of Kiwi comedy show Olympico. Unfortunately their videos are regionally restricted, but if their episodes are only half as funny … :-)
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Don’t Be That Guy at the Pool
Funny, via the17thman
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A pod of dolphins visit Diana Nyad
Still swimming from Cuba to the US, now less than 60 miles from Key West, Diana Nyad had some dolphins visiting.
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Michael Phelps seen swimming at Meadowbrook post-Olympics
Star spotting Baltimore-style :-)
“I spotted Michael Phelps at Meadowbrook on Aug. 16, not at a hero’s welcome, but as he worked out and swam. Yes, he is still swimming.”
See Baltimore Sun
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CC photo #234: That feeling
The joy of jumping into an industrial harbor, two young sea swimmers almost ready for their dip into the dark and cold waters of KlaksvÃk, Saturday, extremely salty with a splash of oil, bottom nowhere in sight.
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Georgian girl to swim across the Dardanelles with hands and feet tied
A 17-year-old Georgian girl plans to swim across the Dardanelles with her hands and feet tied on August 30, the ten-year anniversary of Henry Kuprashvili carrying out the feat in 2002, setting a Guinness record. Read dfwatch.net (and thanks Dato!)
Here’s a video from when Henri Kuprashvili swam across in 2002
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Body of missing freediver Rebecca Weiss found
The body of freediver Rebecca Weiss, who went missing in California last weekend while on a dive, has been found. She was discovered floating in the water off the coast of the Palos Verdes Peninsula late Saturday, KNBC-TV reported. She apparently drowned, although the cause of death has not been officially determined. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday, according to KTLA-TV. Read more here on NY Daily News
Though family members have cast suspicion about how she died, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives have been careful not to suggest any foul play in connection to the case. Read L.A. Now
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A Beluga With a Fine Taste in Art
“While visiting the Mystic Aquarium (with artist-pal Tony DiTerlizzi and family) I stopped to show a 10 year-old beluga whale, named Juno, my sketchbook.”