Category: Fun
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Mellouli hard pressed by the pace of the Danes
Nice comment by the Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli on AZ Daily Sun “It’s been kind of crazy because this is the first time I’m doing triples, which is three workouts a day,” said Mellouli, who won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle for his native Tunisia at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Even for a…
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Under Tyler Clary’s Hood
U.S. swimmer Tyler Clary tells about his passion for trucks and racing, and shows us what he has under his hood. OMG. Via NBC Olympics on Twitter.
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Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts
“Eamon Sullivan interviews swimmer James Roberts and previews the competition for the London 2012 Olympics” Via the17thman
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Swumanoid the humanoid sheds light on the mechanics of swimming
Behold Swumanoid, a bot created by researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, to reproduce a swimmer’s full body movement and measure water resistance in an effort to shed some light on the forces acting on swimmers. Not so fast yet, PB 2:30 over 100 meters, but maybe one day … Via Engadget
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Myes, maybe we should have ‘motivating robots’
Behold the Joggobot, a hovercraft that will fly about your head and motivate you to run faster. Now imagine a shark (or squid) chasing you around the pool. Would make me faster for sure. Via Popsci
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Piranha 3DD – awesome movie out this summer
Before going blind from watching Prometheus in 3D, yesterday evening, I saw this awesome trailer, featuring the most famous lifeguard of all time :-)
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Danish swimmers on small bikes in Leadville
The Danish Olympic team going for a bike ride at 3000 meters altitude in Leadville, Colorado, judging by their faces very early in the morning. Paulus Wildeboer looking sceptical at the BMX-size bike that he got, and Bjarnason apparently giving up on the idea entirely :-)
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Pool attendant turned Hulk almost unable to un-Hulk himself
35-year-old Paulo Henrique Dos Santos had decided to paint himself green for Rio de Janeiro’s Challenge For Peace run, a big hit last year but this year his local paint store was out of his usual brand. So he tried an industrial brand, commonly used for painting ballistic missiles and nuclear submarines, it worked fine,…
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Behold, Adrian & Co’s 5,000 square feet ‘fortress of focus’
In a luxurious, cliff-hanging mansion in the Oakland hills, Cal graduates Nathan Adrian, Will Copeland, Graeme Moore (RSA) and Sean Mahoney have lived for a year, in a 5,000 square feet, six bedrooms temporary home with a living room in which you could (and they did) play badminton. They call it ‘The Mansh’, and share…