Archive for the 'swimming' Category
When visiting a swimming pool makes you a pevert
Yazan: sarabedford | 01 July 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: civil liberties, criminal justice, swimming
Our local paper carries the story of a man aquitted of flashing at a pair of teenage girls at the local leisure pool. The man was accused of following the 14 year olds into the showers after using the pool, before dropping his shorts to reveal his erect penis. Now if that had happened to me, or [...]
Why Matt's the only gay in the Olympic village
Yazan: sarabedford | 18 April 2009 | 3 Comments
Categories: equality, Olympics, sport, swimming
Last August, I switched on to watch the diving finals from Beijing’s Water Cube to see if 14 year old Tom Daley could make history. Of course he was too far behind to make a move on the medal positions, but he was, by his own admission, completely upstaged by Australian Matthew Mitcham, Going into [...]
Yes, I'm watching – but is the Queen?
Yazan: sarabedford | 16 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Olympics, shoes, swimming, the Queen
As a competitive swimmer in my youth, albeit of a much lower standard, I’ve stayed up to watch Becky Adlington win her second gold medal in the 800 metre freestyle. Just superb! Not only did she finish a long way ahead of the silver medallist, she also took more than two seconds off the oldest world [...]
