Category: Fun
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Muse’s “Survival” is the official 2012 Olympic anthem
According to Buzzfeed, they have a poll asking “Is it great?” with the answer “Yes” at the moment narrowly surpassing “OH GOD, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!”. In other news, Ian Thorpe is to feature in a “mood video” to set the scene at the aquatic centre, to go with this song. Brilliant.
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Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012 – Beach Bums
Another lame pun, we’ll just have to endure them :-) Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012 – Beach Bums from Willy Lunaspot on Vimeo. (the other lame pun was this, in case you missed it)
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Stephanie Rice in trouble for posting a photo of herself in her birthday suit
Lame pun borrowed from this article on the Herald Sun :-)
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Laura Funch (DEN), 25 meters in the plunge for distance
They call it an unofficial Danish record here on berns.dk, the 25-meter ‘plunge for distance‘ that Laura Funch managed on June 26, 2012. According to Wikipedia, the current world record holder is Francis Winder (F.W.) Parrington, who on September 23, 1933 managed 86 feet 8 inches (26.42 meters).
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Rikke Møller Pedersen tries on the Danish Olympic Kit
They seem well equipped, the kit including for instance 4 pair of shoes, gala dress with matching earrings, a wollen hat and umbrella (!), official tracksuit etc etc. Maybe not the Italian Armani, but plenty.
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Behind the scenes of the ‘underwater nightclub’
Oh no, it was fake. Via Yahoo! News … “We didn’t want to create a hoax,” says Krivicka, who produced the video with Thinkmodo co-founder James Percelay. “Instead, we imagined a ‘what if’ scenario. We wanted to make sure that this all could exist. The diving helmets are real; there are pressurized drinking containers. Some…
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CC photo #172: Catching the rainbow
Not really a swim photo, but the weather was (for once) just too nice to sit inside and skim through swim photos. My two youngest working as a team to try to catch that rainbow! :-)