Category: WTF
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No Nordic swimming medals at London 2012
Swimming is finished at the London 2012 Olympics, without any Nordic country taking a medal. The others were Athens 1896, St. Louis 1904, Melbourne 1956, Mexico City 1968, Montreal 1976, and Athens 2004. Gutted.
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63-year-old man busted for feeding gator with his hand
Wow, read News-Press via boingboing Wallace Weatherholt, 63, was leading a tour of Florida’s Everglades when he allegedly reached over the side of his boat to feed a fish to an alligator. The 9-foot alligator bit off Weatherholt’s hand at the wrist. Weatherholt was subsequently charged with a misdemeanor for unlawful feeding of a gator.
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Lord Sebastian Coe says Phelps ‘up there’ but not the greatest Olympian of all
Ahh, I remember the days when Seb Coe and Steve Cram fought for glory, Coe the born runner while Cram was more a hard working kind of guy (and therefore, naturally, my kind of guy). My childhood memories say Coe always won, but today he’s just totally WTF. Read The Washington Post
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Swim parents turned away while LOCOG throw soldiers at the seats
Parents and friends of Swedish and Singaporean swimmers as well as a host of other countries have been refused access into the aquatics centre over the past two nights, missing seeing their loved ones compete, while other parents have had hours of angst trying to sort tickets at the last minute. Problem is that the…
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LOCOG’s empty seat scandal ‘solution’ is to call in the troops
Wow, soldiers have been drafted in to fill empty seats at the London 2012 Olympics after prime “Olympic family” seating at the aquatics centre, gymnastics arena and basketball venue again went unused on the second day of competition. Some of the troops, working at the Olympics to provide security, said they were scheduled to start…
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Apathetic ‘Olympic family’ ignite empty seat scandal at London 2012
The Olympic Games has its first scandal: hundreds of embarrasing empty seats at events which were officially sold out, including the swimming heats. Seats reserved for members of the ‘Olympic family’ – including internationals federations, national governing bodies, athletes, IOC officials and media representatives. There are swimmers competing whose parents couldn’t get in, shame on…
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Ah, Weber-Gale is at it again, now eating bugs in London
Garrett Weber-Gale has found his old pals at Noma while in London, the three years in a row World’s No 1 restaurant having set up a “Taste of Noma” at the Claridge’s luxury hotel on Brook Street, Mayfair. And they are back to eating bugs again, no reason to change a winning recipe. Btw, don’t…
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The Curl affair was “The Worst Kept Secret in Washingtonâ€
Read Caps & Goggles: This is all plenty scandalous and distasteful, but that’s not the worst of it. Here’s the part to make you gag: EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW. The worst part about this breaking news is that it’s not news at all – not to the swimmers and coaches and parents who grew up swimming…
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Female MMA champion Ronda Rousey is no fan of Phelps
Yeah, she is obviously so much better, read for instance the New York Post. The female MMA champion took some serious swings at swimming superstar Michael Phelps for his snobby behavior at the 2008 Beijing Olympics where Rousey competed for the United States in judo.