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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 :-)

  • Kirsty CoventryInteresting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle.

    Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be training in Monaco until Olympics. Reason: no distractions and location.less than a minute ago via Seesmic twhirl Favorite Retweet ReplyKirsty Coventry
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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 contact Chris at the Swim Brief ;-)

  • Sir Richard Branson has pulled out of “The Swim” across the Irish Sea, after his luxury Carribean home was struck by lightning caused by Irene. Actress Kate Winslett was among 20 people who fled the paradise home on Necker Island, as it went up in flames. Pop star Ronan Keating has vowed to battle on despite of injuring his hamstring earlier this week, alongside other celebrities including Atomic Kitten singer Jenny Frost, all to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Read more here on The Telegraph.

  • 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 Copenhagen…had to throw one back. Gnar http://t.co/o6GBr7oless than a minute ago via Twitpic Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-Gale
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  • Sea LampreyThe sea lamprey is a parasitic eel-like fish found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, in the Great Lakes and even in the Thames. It has a suction-cup like mouth full of sharp teeth, and it doesn’t take prisoners, but let’s them bleed to death or die from infection. It usually doesn’t attack humans, but oh well it has happened even to open water swimmers.

    Anyways, Michigan State University has developed an effective lamprey repellent, that gets tested in the video below.

    Aand there is an underwater view as well. Really nice, via Geekosystem.

  • This fad has to stop, “Once upon a time, Fresno was the California Dream. Own a car. Own a house. Own a pool. Everyone wanted it and the wonderful world of credit made it all possible. But now, with the foreclosure monster running wild, the dream is dry. Thousands of pools are festering in the hot Central Valley sun. For most people this is tragic. But for some, it’s an opportunity.” Via documentary.net.

    Cannonball from California is a place. on Vimeo.

  • See Eamon, there are problems and then there are non-problems ;-)

    “I wear less every day anyway so that wasn’t a problem,” Sullivan said. “It just wasn’t my thing, I had fun but there’s no way I’d ever do that as a career, it’s not me.”

    Despite his chiselled physique and boy-next-door good looks, Sullivan is uncomfortable with his newfound sex symbol status.

    “It’s a bit unexpected and not something that I really focus on,” he said. “Being a Perth boy it’s not something I’m used to.”

    Read The West Australian.

  • An elderly couple out for a swim off Venice Beach Thursday evening found themselves the victims of an attack by a sea lion, reports KTLA.

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