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  • Ryan Lochte offered a cameo on NBC’s Saturday Night Live

    Sep 23, 2012

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    rokur
    in Gossip

    Uh oh, maybe he’ll make an impression of Seth MacFarlane ? :-)

    Read for instance TheDeadBolt and Celebrity-Gossip.net

    At the iHeartRadio Music Festival on Friday, MTV News was able to snag a few minutes with Ryan to ask him about the possibility of making a cameo on SNL. Lochte revealed that he did receive a call from producers and could possibly appear on the show as early as this Saturday.

  • Rio 2016 – A city leaps forward

    Sep 23, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, Wow

    Stunning waterfront plans have been unveiled for Brazil 2016’s Olympic Park – designed by British designers who made London such a success. The park will be built on the former Brazilian grand prix track in a striking triangular layout spread over 300 acres, accommodating among other things 20,000 journalists at the Media Centre, the Olympic and Paralympic villages and (drum roll) the Aquatics Centre. Read more here on Mail Online

  • Ryan Lochte: Yeah, I Heard about Seth MacFarlane’s Impression on SNL

    Sep 22, 2012

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    rokur
    in Gossip

    TMZ chatted with Olympian Ryan Lochte about Seth McFarlane’s absolutely BRUTAL portrayal of him on the season premiere of “SNL.”

    My personal opinion? – TMZ come off as the dumbest of them all, for not even google’ing their Nile vs Amazon question, and discovering that it is not that simple:

    The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in recent years some Brazilian and Peruvian studies have suggested that the Amazon is longer by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal canal

  • Crew member drowns on Lone Ranger set

    Sep 22, 2012

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Tragedy has struck the production of Disney and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger summer blockbuster after one of its crew members sadly passed away earlier today. Law enforcement sources tell TMZ that he was prepping a tank, possibly cleaning it, when someone noticed no bubbles from the gear were surfacing. Apparently he had a heat attack, investigators treat it as a “natural death.” Read for instance TMZ and TheHDRoom

  • Swimming with Anacondas

    Sep 22, 2012

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    rokur
    in Nature, Wow, WTF

    “As I held my breath underwater, the 200-pound anaconda slid leisurely beneath me — inches from my face. The endless, scaled form with a head the size of an anvil is a creature from nightmares (including my own) and native myths.” Read and watch ABC News Explore

  • CC photo #267: Jeanette Ottesen on the Istanbul 2009 podium

    Sep 22, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    LEN TSC Chairman Søren Korbo handing Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) some kind of trophy at the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships, for winning bronze in the women’s 100 butterfly (time 56.02).

    Jeanette Ottesen on the Istanbul 2009 podium

  • Coastguards – A Waterlust Film about Sharks

    Sep 22, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Nature

    A short film by Biologist Austin Gallagher describing his fears and fascinations associated with sharks.

  • Chameleon Washing His Hands

    Sep 22, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

    Important stuff, y’know, via Neatorama

  • The Noise of the Aquatic Centre

    Sep 22, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun

    A somewhat different swimming video :-)

    The Noise of the Aquatic Centre from Luce on Vimeo.

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