Month: August 2011
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Kirsty Coventry will train in Monaco until the Olympics
Interesting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle. Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be…
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Garrett Weber-Gale was on Danish TV tonight
A short segment on TV2 tonight about his ‘holiday’ at Noma, working in the kitchen of the number one restaurant in the world. The subtitle says “I come here and work for hours in the kichen. It is tedious and hard.” If you have trouble with any other Danish speak in the segment, then please…
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Sir Branson bows out of The Swim after fire ravages his home
Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on…
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Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma
First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can. How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to…
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Here’s a tub of terrified sea lampreys
The sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die…
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Cannonball – Skating the Swimming Pool
This fad has to stop, “Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the…
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Eamon Sullivan struggles with being a sex symbol
See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-) “I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.” Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan…
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Sea lion attacks couple at Venice Beach
An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.
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ITN: Gaddafi swimming pool becomes rebel playground
Libyan rebels have stormed the Tripoli house of Colonel Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, swimming in her pool and lounging on her sofas. Read more here on ITN.co.uk.