This is my youngest meeting the hot Mediterranean Ocean for the first time, back in 2010. We might go for another (cooler) dip in the North Atlantic Ocean this afternoon (or evening, doesn’t really matter when the sea is at a constant 8.0-8.5°C / 46.4-47.3°F, and sunset not until at about 22:56).
A man in his early 20s was surfing with a friend early this morning off the west coast of Australia when he was mauled by a great white shark, which bit him in half. A jet-skier who witnessed the scene described how there was only “half a torso†left of the victim, and that he was himself attacked as he tried to help. Police are searching for remains, but have yet to find any. Read for instance Mirror .
In another incident the other day, two divers had a close encounter with a great white shark, up to the point where they had to prod it away with their spearguns. There have been five fatal shark incidents off Western Australia since September.
See this competition on ESPN, Ryan Lochte has already beaten someone called Pauli Bissonnette and Tim Tebow and now has to beat an old soccer player called David Beckham, while Natalie Coughlin has beaten someone named Agnieszka Radwanska and Natalie Gulbis to now challenge Lolo Jones.
https://twitter.com/ryanlochte/status/223948462947958784
A 21-year-old Danish guy will get a fine of up to maybe DKK 70,000 (US$ 11,500) for swimming across the fjord at Aalborg, Northern Jutland, yesterday evening. A witness had alerted the police, triggering a rescue search by boat and helicopter, that resulted in the boat picking the swimmer up near the city of Nørresundby, across the fjord, the swimmer apparently perfectly okay but drunk. The story on DR Nordjylland mentions that he was in his underpants, but that is seriously a minor offense in Denmark.
(Limfjorden Aalborg – Nørresundby, photo courtesy of vrdier, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Because he can, because he can, see Bob’s Blitz
Nice one via ABC News, the U.S. Olympic committee now promise American made uniforms by 2014.
Read Buzzfeed Sports
The Olympics are one of the most exhausting, overwhelming, exciting, crazy experiences you could possibly imagine. There’s a reason I took over a year off after the last one [laughs] — they are draining. There’s so much pressure, so much excitement, and you’re physically exhausted from competition, but there’s just all this craziness around you, and it is draining. Fortunately, I’ve been on that world stage for many years and I know exactly what to expect in London, so I have a gameplan now, but they’re pretty insane.
Via The Daily What
The London 2012 Olympic Village is now officially open for business, looks okay but the beds are tiny by most standards, some of us would call them ‘kid’s size’. They have arrangement for longer beds for ‘extra long beds’ for basketball players, rowers and the like … but really, 172 cm ?!? Read for instance Business Insider, Yahoo! Sport, Gulf News.
