Tag: featured
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Pier Plunging Craze Hits Faroe Islands
UPDATE: Turns out that this is probably a marketing gimmick by Danish energy drink maker Cult, that ended up here somewhat twisted and without a sender. See for instance mx.dk At the beginning of this Easter holiday, a social fad started spreading here in the Faroes, that had next to everyone and his brother jump…
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Katie Hoff’s First Pitch Surprise
Todd Anderson proposes to Katie Hoff at Rays game in Tampa! (Warning, vertical video) Featured photo by Vironevaeh
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Sewage Levels In Rio 2016 Waters Have Olympic Experts Worried
Read The Atlantic Guanabara Bay, the site of several 2016 Olympic sailing events, has 78 times Brazil’s legally allowed limit of fecal pollution, and 195 times the U.S. limit. In addition to human waste, the bay is also a receptacle for trash from ships and the bay’s 15 adjacent communities, as well as toxic runoff from a former landfill.…
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Phelps’ comeback a bit of a wet idea
Read The Roar Which brings me in a roundabout way to Michael Phelps. At the end of the London Olympics, Superfish couldn’t get out of the pool quick enough. “I’m so sick of the water,†he said. “There will be no more staring at that black line for four hours every day. “Once I retire,…
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Darren Jew photographing humpback whales in Tonga
It is a Canon ad. But it is also awesome.
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Swimming in the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean
What happens when you jump into freezing water? One of the reasons the ocean’s ‘down south’ are not frozen in Summer, is because the ocean is saline (it contains salt from rocks and minerals) and therefore freeze at a lower temperature than the surrounding fresh water ice blocks, which originally come from gigantic icebergs –…
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Danish Dames making their mark on the World Rankings
Now after the big spring selections for Berlin and Glasgow 2014, we can conclude that the state of Danish swimming is good, at least on the women’s side. Their 2012 female Olympians all posted at top-8 times, Mie Ø. Nielsen bettered the Nordic records in the 50 and 100 back, and Rikke Møller Pedersen has…
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The Scientific Secret To Swimming Faster
According to USRPT Helpful research links:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20…http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…http://bjsportmed.com/content/13/4/16…http://www.getcited.org/pub/103342732http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/csa/vol21/bu…http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/swim/bullets…http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/coachs…http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…http://coachsci.sdsu.edu/swim/trainin…USRPT Discussion Forums:Â http://usrpt.com/forums/
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