Author: rokur
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Lego Swimming Olympics 2012 – a Kromo and Veldhuis tribute
Amazing stop motion animation skills here, celebrating the Dutch gold and bronze in the women’s 50 freestyle at London 2012. Created by YouTube user Bieele and 8-year-old son :-)
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Behold Captain the freediving dog
35 feet in one breath, probably the canine world record ! :-) Here is him retrieving two frisbees in one dive, wow
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Blair Evans & Eamon Sullivan on Nova
Blair Evans and Eamon Sullivan dropped by the Nova studio to talk to Nathan, Nat and Shaun about post Games lifestyle. Classy intro, “Do you know how hard it was to follow you guys over at the Olympics without being able to say ‘Olympics’?” See NovaFM
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Eve and Candace on the Nathan Adrian / Matt Grevers bromance
Eve and Candace discuss the love shared between Nathan Adrian and Matt Grevers. Brace yourselves.
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Wayne Soutter makes history with North Channel swim
43-year-old South African Wayne Soutter has become the first person ever to swim from the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland to the north Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. Others have conquered the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, but none of them have crossed by the shortest and most treacherous route, from Kintyre. And…
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CC photo #241: Oldest and youngest, coach and swimmer
Yup, that is right, I’m blatantly pushing my kids into swimming. First day of swimming for our youngest, last Saturday, second year of coaching for our oldest.
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Lochte’s sister Megan apologizes for “racist” video
Ryan Lochte’s sister Megan Lochte is in hot water for making offensive remarks during a talk show appearance back in 2008, saying now it is misunderstood, that the “talk show” was actually a comedy skit. See US Weekly via BlackBook and Gossip Cop This was not a real interview, and it in no way reflects…
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CC photo #240: 3 guys having fun with a fishing crate in Toftir harbor
A strange sight in Toftir harbor, yesterday evening, three young men who’d put on wetsuits and lowered a fishing crate into the harbor, to see if they could get up into it all three at once. Quite difficult, by the looks of it, as it was very prone to keeling over. Moments later, all three…
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Bride drowns during photo shoot when wedding dress pulls her into the river
Warning to all wedding photographers, a newly married Montreal-area women drowned this past Friday during a ‘trash the dress’ photo shoot in the Ouareau River. The 30-year-old woman stepped into water that was neither deep nor fast-flowing. However, her wedding dress soaked up the river water, making it extremely heavy. She then slipped on the…