14-year-old Annaleise Carr has arrived at Toronto’s Marilyn Bell Park, making history by becoming the youngest swimmer to cross Lake Ontario. That’s 52 km in about 27 hours, for charity. Read for instance The Globe and Mail and see CTV News.
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Ryan Lochte interviewed in Vegas
Barechested alongside girls in bikinis, thank god he’s not a congressman ! :-)
Via the17thman
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Congressman Yoder apologizes for skinny dip in the Sea of Galilee
Oh the humanity, U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder of Kansas apologized to his constituents Sunday night after a published report revealed the freshman lawmaker swam nude in the Sea of Galilee during a private fact-finding trip to the Mideast last August. Giggle, read more here on The Kansas City Star and see for instance ABC News and wgrz.com
Here’s Letterman’s angle on the incident
And here is a song, thank you YouTube
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CC photo #235: Extreme rower Livar Nysted giving free rides to kids on a tiny viking ship
Funny and most adorable sight in KlaksvÃk, last Saturday, Faroese rowing legend Livar Nysted giving free rides to kids on a small Faroese rowing boat that he refitted to resemble a viking ship. Silly hat and all, still this guy was part of the 4-man-crew that in 2010 set the still standing transatlantic rowing world record, rowing from New York to the Isles of Scilly in 43 days, 21 hours and 26 minutes. Now he offered to row people about in the harbor of KlaksvÃk for several hours, as part of the annual Sjómannadagurin (‘Seaman’s day’). Some of us wondered if he didn’t get tired, but I guess in no way in the same way as when crossing the Atlantic :-)
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Swimming Review – London 2012 Olympic Games
Swimming Review from the Aquatics Centre at the London 2012 Olympic Games., including the record breaking exploits of Michael Phelps. Must say open water gets a lot of coverage here, compared to for instance Ryan Lochte and Matt Grevers.
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London 2012 Olympics: Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay Final
Full replay, courtesy of the Official IOC Olympic Channel on YouTube
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Will Michael Phelps become a sports announcer ?
SlateNewsChannel gossip
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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