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  • London 2012 Olympics: Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay Final

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Full replay, courtesy of the Official IOC Olympic Channel on YouTube

    Michael Phelps' Final London 2012 Race – Men's 4 x 100m Medley | London 2012 Olympic Games

  • Will Michael Phelps become a sports announcer ?

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Gossip

    SlateNewsChannel gossip

    Will Michael Phelps Retire from Olympic Swimming to Be a Sports Announcer?

  • Behold the Olympico theme song

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition, Fun

    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 โ€ฆ :-)

  • Don’t Be That Guy at the Pool

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Funny, via the17thman

  • A pod of dolphins visit Diana Nyad

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun, Nature, Open Water

    Still swimming from Cuba to the US, now less than 60 miles from Key West, Diana Nyad had some dolphins visiting.

  • Michael Phelps seen swimming at Meadowbrook post-Olympics

    Aug 21, 2012

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    rokur
    in Gossip

    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

    Aug 20, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Faroe Islands, Fun, Open Water

    The joy of jumping into an industrial harbor, two young sea swimmers almost ready for their dip into the dark and cold waters of Klaksvรญk, Saturday, extremely salty with a splash of oil, bottom nowhere in sight.

    That feeling

  • Georgian girl to swim across the Dardanelles with hands and feet tied

    Aug 20, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun, Open Water, Wow

    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!)

    Gjeorgji, not me duar dhe kรซmbรซ tรซ lidhura

    Here’s a video from when Henri Kuprashvili swam across in 2002

    Colchian-Iberian style of swimming – Henri Kuprashvili, the Dardanelles 2002

  • Body of missing freediver Rebecca Weiss found

    Aug 20, 2012

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    rokur
    in Freediving, Open Water, Safety

    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,ย KNBC-TV reported. She apparently drowned, although the cause of death has not been officially determined. An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday, according toย 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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