Swimmer's Daily

Category: Fun

  • Crikey, there’s a crocodile in the pool !

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    Swimmers in Darwin, Australia got a small yet significant shock when a crocodile was found in a public pool. Lifeguard Tim Dupe said he initially thought the reptile was a rubber toy until it snapped it jaws. Swimmer’s Daily comment: The reptile epidemic is spreading, from now on I’ll put a bullet through every toy…

  • Behold, the World Bog Snorkeling Championships

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    They’ve got some crazy rules down there in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales. “Competitors must swim (without the use of their arms) down the bog and back again. Only 1 length is required if they are in a fancy dress.” The world record is now 1 minute 24 seconds, from when Andrew Holmes this year swam…

  • The Speedo Show – Eamon was awesome, and his fans enjoyed it :-)

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    A glimpse of the recent Speedo Fashion Show, part of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival, featuring pro models and struggling sex symbol Eamon Sullivan. Eamon might have been the amateur here, but still it seems like he was better at really connecting with the audience (see 0:16 and 1:33 :-)

  • Share your unforgettable swims to win GBP 3000

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    On August 19, Eyeka.com and Speedo launched this video and photo contest, deadline on August 29, for you to share your most memorable swim with the chance to win up to £3000. You have to create a user account there, upload the video or photo, whereafter internet users will vote on it or not on…

  • You’re talking about the Olympics, right?

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    Check out Ryan Lochtes reaction when the swedish, (blonde?) female reporter asks him: “…and you are talking about the Olympics, is that right?”  (around 30-50 sec mark). But to be fair, Ryan wasn’t 100% clear in his statement :-)

  • Garrett Weber-Gale was on Danish TV tonight

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    A short segment on TV2 tonight about his ‘holiday’ at Noma, working in the kitchen of the number one restaurant in the world. The subtitle says “I come here and work for hours in the kichen. It is tedious and hard.” If you have trouble with any other Danish speak in the segment, then please…

  • Garrett Weber-Gale keeps eating crazy stuff at Noma

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    First it was live prawns, and now some guy from Brazil produces a fly and says that it is edible. As if we didn’t learn already at kindergarden, not to eat stuff just because some other guy says that you can. How many of you would eat this? I did. Brazilian chef brought them to…

  • Woman fishes leg out of lake, lost 3 years earlier by a swimmer

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    A woman fishing near her home on Lake Ida in Minnesota said she reeled in a prosthetic leg three years after it was lost by a swimmer. She tries to track down the leg’s owner, who turns out to be another resident at Lake Ida who lost her leg while swimming three years ago. Leg…

  • Dream Machine – Fiji Water 2011

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    Tatiana and Verda enjoying the water in and around Fiji. Yes, we are in the GoPro zone again, capturing beautiful video no matter if it is in, on or above water, or in the transition between these places. DREAM MACHINE – FIJI WATER – 2011 from Tatiana Howard on Vimeo.