Month: August 2011
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Lifeguard fired for refusing to wear Speedos ?
61-year-old Roy Lester says he lost his job as a lifeguard because he wanted to take the annual swimming test in bicycle shorts instead of the tiny trunks. “They were just trying to get rid of the older guys. To me the whole key to being a good lifeguard is experience.” Lester is a triathlete,…
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It is safer if the swimming teacher stays on deck ?
Parents in Cupar, Fife have reacted with disbelief to a decision which bans swimming teachers from being in the water with children. A spokesperson for Fife Sport and Leisure Trust has said: “The decision that instructors should supervise from the pool side was based on guidance from Scottish Swimming, the national governing body for swimming.…
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Versus has some incredible inspirational speeches
Found these via Matt Abood and Amaury Leveaux on Twitter, Versus TV sport commercials. This one about You vs Them: And this one about being the underdog: “The odds may be stacked against you, fair enough. But what the odds don’t know, is this isn’t a math test” :-)
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What happens when you fire a gun underwater ?
No, it doesn’t just go ‘pffffhht’. Smarter Every Day via Laughing Squid.
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Oh my, Prince Albert tried to score Potec before Wittstock ?
Romanian media says Prince Albert of Monaco fell in love with Romanian swimmer Camelia Potec at the Mare Nostrum event in Monte Carlo in 2000, when he is also said to have met Charlene Wittstock. The source is Potec’s former coach, Doina Sava, and Potec is said to have admitted that the Prince asked her…
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Ice skating the Norwegian viking way
Indoor speed skating is for Dutch wimps, this is how it is done by true Norwegian vikings. Vikingfjord is a brand of Norwegian vodka, keeps you warm. Via UnofficialNetworks.
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Fundraiser avoids nude walk by swimming double distance
Interesting motivation here: The singer/songwriter left Hurst Castle to swim to Fort Albert, but the strong current of the tide dragged him towards Southampton. In the end, he ended up swimming about 5,000 metres — double what he had planned. Gareth said: “It was tough but for some reason I didn’t seem to get tired.…
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‘Sea animal’ bites off both swimmer’s arms
A creature described as a “sea animal” chewed off both arms of a Russian swimmer in an extremely rare attack in the waters off its Far Eastern Coast. Via Herald Sun. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” the Interfax news agency quoted a…
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Ugh, the Indianapolis Speech Scene will be made into a movie
The USS Indianapolis was the last major American ship sunk by enemy forces during World War II, with the largest loss of life at sea in US history, as some 300 men went down with the ship and over the next four days another 500 or so died of starvation, exposure, suicide and shark attacks.…