Category: Fun
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Behold, Langton’s 62″ standing box jump
This is no swimmer, but 6’2″, 230 lbs ‘Super’ Steve Langton, brakeman on the US gold winning bobsled team. 62 inches is 157,48 centimeters to us metric guys. Dailyhouse via GoSwim on Twitter
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Ottesen teaches her date for a day how to track start
In the Danish TV show “Emils damer” (Emil’s Dames), lucky reporter Emil tries out what it is like to be the boyfriend of ten famous Danish women for 24 hours (yeah, you can do that, but the job is taken and the waiting list is full). In this video, he tries out dryland with Danish…
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Steven Tyler moons camera and takes a swim on ‘American Idol’
Geez, I fear that that phrase “I’m coming mom” will be used and misused a lot around here from now on :-)
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Scooter the penguin needs a cape to keep warm
The African penguin Scooter didn’t molt this year, which means she didn’t grow the new feathers that weave into a watertight coat, and the zookeepers at Children’s Zoo at Celebration Square in Saginaw, Michigan therefore had to put this cape on her, in order to keep her from going into hypothermia. Californians have had success…
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CC photo #55: Blue hair at Køge Open 2007
A young Faroese swimmer at the annual Køge Open at Køge Svømmeland, Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, strengthened by participation from foreign clubs. Funny how time flies … to do well there was almost the peak of our international ambitions back in 2007, and now it is London 2012.
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Curl Curl
Early morning hours at Curl Curl sea pool on Sydney’s northern beaches. Soundtrack is “The Swimming Song” by Loudon Wainwright III. Love it. Curl curl from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo. Via Gold Medal Mel on Facebook.
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Lucky (the) penguin gets custom-made shoe
One-year-old Lucky, a penguin at the Santa Barbara Zoo, had one leg that wasn’t growing right, making him walk with a limp. Zookeepers tried a splint first, but that interfered with his ability to swim, and they therefore contacted local shoe company Teva. Read more here on Nothing To Do With Arbroath