Category: Fun
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World swim cap wearing record set at the 2012 Tybee Island Polar Plunge
You might not have know about it, but the Guinness world record for the largest gathering of people wearing swim caps was 546 people, set in Japan in July 2011. Now it is American, with 2045 people absolutely demolishing the record at the 2012 Tybee Island Polar Plunge in Georgia, USA. Via The Graveyard shift
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Swimming With Manatees
Finally someone going for a warm dip in wetsuits with aquatic wildlife on New Year’s Eve, rather than an icy dip with wild people the day after ! :-) Swimming with Manatees from Jess Wang on Vimeo.
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Vancouver Polar Bear Swim 2012
People going crazy on Polar Bear Swim 2012 at English Bay, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada. Air temperature: 5ºC / 41ºF. Water temperature: 7.7ºC / 46ºF. Polar Bear Swim 2012 from Beto Galetto on Vimeo.
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Carry and Keri-Anne having Kopi Luwak (cat poo) coffee
Fun tweet from David Carry, who has been testing some Kopi Luwak coffee. We’re talking coffee made from the beans of coffee berries which have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet (Toddy Cat), defecated, gathered, washed, sun dried, roasted and brewed. And then drunk by people as the most expensive coffee in the world…
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CC photo #3: Thumbs up from Alex in Budapest
So this photo is from when I was shooting some sponsor photos of Pál and the rest of us at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships competition pool, between prelims and finals the penultimate day of the meet. European 100 meter breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was swimming more or less alone in the…
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The Burien 2012 Polar Bear Plunge from a swimmer’s POV
Three Tree Point, Burien, Washington. January 1st, 2012. Air temperature: 53°F (11.7°C). Water temperature: Colder :-) Via b-townblog.com
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Ellen Gandy the Brit that lives farthest away from the London 2012 Olympic Park
The Independent has this fun article today called “The long, short and tall of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls“, lining up interesting ‘records’ of British athletes training for the London 2012 Olympics, like 18-year-old featherweight weightlifting champion Hannah Powell being the shortest and lightest with her 4 ft 9 in (144 cm) height and 7 stone (44.4 kg) weight ……
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The other Mayan calendar predicts no London 2012 medals for Phelps
Alexandra Petri writes here on the Washington Post about an Ancient Mayan day-planner that she has unearthed, instructing her “to sacrifice a toothed hen or an Iowan who had never had his hand shaken by a political candidate. After some difficulty I located the hen.” Well, it mentions a lot of other predictions for 2012…