Month: March 2014
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Ellie Simmonds presents her Motivational Playlist on BBC Radio 1
On tomorrow’s My Playlister on BBC Radio 1, Ellie Simmonds is going to be taking over and playing her Motivational Playlist. The show goes out 9-10pm and Ellie has been let loose in a studio to present her very own show! She plays loads of great music, from the likes of Oasis, Beyonce, Little Mix…
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Bodyboarder injured when dolphin hit him ‘like a bulldozer’
Read The Australian and see 7News The 27-year-old man was surfing at Bawley Point, 250 kilometres south of Sydney, when the collision occurred. “He has come over a wave and as he did so, a dolphin has come through and hit him in the pelvic area,’’ New South Wales Ambulance duty operations manager Wayne Dunlop…
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2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Queensland
Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Brittany Elmslie, Grant Irvine, Ned McKendry, Katie Goldman, Maddie Wilson, Maddie Elliott, Bronte Barratt
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Audioflood Waterproof iPod Shuffle Test Tonight
See www.audioflood.com Mine is loaded with Ãsgeir Trausti. If it works, it is gonna be sweet! :-) (more to follow later)
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Just keep swimming – BUMS feature on WBNG 12 Action News
See WBNG You don’t have to be a college athlete or professional sports star to participate in athletics. A diverse group of swimmers are keeping their competitive spirits alive by participating in Masters Swim. Nearly 55,000 swimmers are members of United States Masters Swim, more than 100 of which participate in the Binghamton University Masters…
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Broken Fire Hydrant Lifts Car Off The Ground
See NBC San Diego A car collided with a hydrant in Chollas View early Tuesday creating a spectacular scene. The water from the hydrant pushed the rear end of the car off the ground and kept it there while crews worked to shut off the water. “The water is holding it up, yo!”
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Canadian 7-Eleven offers free Slurpees to customers wearing swim suits (in March)
See CTV News The store at St. Mary’s Road and Osborne Street offered a free Slurpee to anyone who showed up wearing a bathing suit on Saturday. According to Environment Canada, the temperature at the time was a balmy minus 32 degrees with the wind chill. Derek Ducharme says going out in the cold is…
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This Is What Being Attacked By A Shark Looks Like
Via Digg Caribbean Reef Shark encounter in the Western Caribbean Sea. We were Lion Fish Culling when the shark came out of no ware. It scared the crap out of me. Filmed on my GoPro 3 camera. We were in about 70′ of water when the shark encounter occurred.
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London Bridge suicide jumper rescue saves second man from drowning
See London24, via Arbroath A man threatening to leap into the Thames from London Bridge last night inadvertently saved a stranger from drowning. Lifeboat crew were called out around 11pm yesterday evening, and were stood down when police on the bridge talked down the distressed man. 1) 23:00 called to London Bridge to reports of…