So happy those days are gone ! :-)
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Behold the Chap Olympiad 2012
Having run annually since 2005, the the Chap Olympiad 2012 where held last weekend on Bedford Square in London, to celebrate ‘athletic ineptitude and immaculate trouser creases’. Or as one participant puts in in this video, “The reason we’re here, is to celebrate the loosers and to celebrate the fact that Britain isn’t really that good at proper sport, but is good at silly sport, it is good at sport that involves falling over, smoking a pipe, getting drunk and having a good time.” Via Nothing to do with Arbroath.
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Teenager explains how he sacrificed his arm to get away from alligator
An alligator at least 10 feet long lunged at a teenager swimming in a river and bit off the teen’s right arm below the elbow, state wildlife officials said Tuesday. Here is Kaleb Langdale, 17, explaining how it went. Wow. Read more here on ABC News.
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MIT alum captures world record-setting highest-resolution underwater image
Logged at 2.6 gigapixels, this YouTube video shows a new robotic, 3D camera system in action, developed by MIT alum Corey Jaskolski, responsible for taking “the world record-setting, highest-resolution underwater image.†Read BostInno
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Swimming: an instant expert’s guide to the Olympic sport
Olympic 100m and 200m breaststroke hopeful Michael Jamieson explains the rules of Olympic competition, courtesy of The Guardian.
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London residents lose bid to challenge Olympic missiles
Residents of a 17-story tower block near the Olympic Park have no right to challenge an unprecedented decision by the army to deploy high-velocity missiles in a residential area, a high court judge has ruled. Read more here on the Guardian.
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CC photo #192: Shade occupied at Shanghai 2011
That feeling, when you just have to wait a couple of minutes for the bus, but the sun is blazing and the humidity so high that you are soaking before that. Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships.
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NBC, Google Plan Summer Olympic Cyberattack Battle
NBC and Google are conducting “war games” in at least three countries to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction disrupting the online streaming of the Summer Olympics. Also, water on my mill, online broadcast turns out to be actually boosting TV viewership.
For example, some feared that an online broadcast would cannibalize TV viewership, said Rick Cordella, senior vice president for digital media at NBC Sports and Olympics. But NBC found that streaming online content actually created “pre-air buzz†and encouraged more people to watch a taped broadcast on television.
Read CIO Journal via GoSwim on Twitter.
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Just a guy wakeboarding down the main streets of Irkutsk
Awesome, title says “Wakeboarding the central streets of Irkutsk” (Siberia, Russia)
Via Buzzfeed
