Category: Fun
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Ryan Lochte nearly dropped his 2011 Male Race of the Year Golden Goggles Award :-P
As Ryan Lochte accepted his award for the Male Race of the Year Award at USA Swimming’s Golden Goggles Sunday night, he pulled a typical Ryan Lochte move: He nearly dropped the trophy. One estimate says the hardware is worth in the range og $1,500, so it was a good thing Lochte caught it before…
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Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin win Athletes of the Year awards at Golden Goggles
At the 2011 Golden Goggles yesterday evening, two-time Olympian Ryan Lochte capped a stellar season by winning the Male Athlete of the Year and the Male Race of the Year award over Michael Phelps, while teenar Missy Franklin won the same two female awards. Read The Washington Post. The Female Athlete of the Year Award…
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Peter Vanderkaay wins the 2011 Golden Goggles Perseverance Award
I like every bit of this video, except maybe that guy in the beginning messing up the speech because of having had too much wine during dinner :-P Watch more videos on USA Swimming’s YouTube channel
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Swim. – Behind the scenes / day three
Warning, no pool shot this time. Follow them like crazy on Facebook. See also behind the scenes day one and two. SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Three from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
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What happens when you crack a raw egg 100 feet underwater ?
Two instructors from Go Dive Brisbane dove into 32 meters (about 105 feet) of water with a half dozen eggs to solve this mystery. Lots of strange things happening here! Via geek.com
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Bob the dog knows how to dive
Impressive, the stray dog Bob dives easily to depths of eight feet to fish out his toys. And we get a glimpse of the Canadian sport Octo-Pushing, a kind of underwater hockey where swimmers use home-made sticks to push a weighted puck around the bottom of a swimming pool. And of someone tumbling on a…
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SWIM. – Behind the scenes / day two
It is only day two of the shooting of SWIM. – Short Movie, and already there is a bit of a crisis. Or not :-) SWIM – Behind the Scenes / Day Two from SWIM. – Short Film on Vimeo.
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Principal to swim with sharks after students meet challenge
Aaah, Principal Fradley has surely learned a lesson about motivation, promising to swim with the sharks at the Florida Aquarium in Tampa, if his students raised more than $20,000 at a Walk-A-Thon in September. “I really didn’t think they would do it, because last year we raised $12,000,” Dr. Fradley said. Oh well, they did,…