Author: rokur
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Giant isopod fasts for 4 years, still doesn’t care to eat
Minders at the Toba Aquarium in Japan say a male giant isopod know as “No. 1” last ate now more than 1500 days ago, on 2 January 2009, a horse mackerel which it devoured in just five minutes. That’s 18 days before President Obama began his first term. They’ve tried everything, but the animal justs…
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A man swims breaststroke on top of his car during a hail storm
Or something like that, via Complex
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Former USA Swimming VP files complaint about screening
Read for instance ESPN and Stamford Advocate A former vice president at USA Swimming claims the organization’s new screening procedures failed to detect a coach with multiple identities and a felony conviction. Mike Saltzstein filed a complaint Monday asking for a review of a person known as James Pantera, who became involved with San Diego Imperial Swimming last…
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Michael Phelps on Golf, Oscar Pistorius and Making Mistakes
See Fox News Insider “What Oscar did in the sport of track and field is amazing … what he did and what he overcame. My thoughts and prayers go out to [Reeva’s] family … It’s just a tragic event,†he said. “I think one thing that … I think a lot of people think that…
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Is golf less dull if Michael Phelps swings a club?
Read The Salt Lake Tribune Golf is so boring that the Golf Channel needs to bring in an Olympic swimmer to get people to watch. OK, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. But it’s entirely possible that the most buzz the Golf Channel has ever gotten surrounds the appearance of Michael Phelps on “The Haney…
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Sunrise – Ian Thorpe in gay nightclub scandal
A Melbourne nightclub is in hot water after it used swim legend Ian Thorpe’s image to advertise a gay party. http://youtu.be/FhZPyIk195I
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Salnikov: Breaststroke rules to allow multiple dolphin kicks the first 15 meters
Read SwimNews FINA, in a move believed by some as a way around introducing underwater cameras in disputes and appeals, may relax the rules on breaststroke to allow multiple dolphin kicks at the start of races, according to former 1500m great Vladimir Salnikov. “The athletes will be allowed to make an unlimited number of dolphin…
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Top Romanian swimmer Mihai Ciocan collapses, dies
Read SwimmingWorld Magazine Romanian high school swimmer Mihai Octavian Ciocan, 18, died late last night after a party with his friends, according to Objectiv Vocea Brailiei. The Farul Constana Swim Club member collapsed in front of his friends, and was pronounced dead on arrival at the local hospital. Ciocan was a multiple national champion from…
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CC photo #423: Maybe the world’s most cramped technical meeting
From this weekend’s swim meet at Toftir, Faroe Islands. Held in a closet, what-you-see-is-what-it-is, I (the photographer) am standing in the doorway. Please leave your notepads and tablets outside :-)