I don’t know. He missed the swim cutoff time by like an hour and a half or more. It probably shouldn’t even count.
2 Likes
So this happened a few hours south of where we live (which for those that know how big Western Australia is, that is not that far away) and where we holiday a lot.
It is incredible that it all turned out the way that it did on so many levels. Yes, there are a lot of sharks around at the moment and there are generally daily great white sightings in this area with all the shark alerts we have in place. I can’t begin to imagine what was going through the mothers mind, send her son to try and swim to shore, knowing something could happen to him or to them so they may not all survive; stay together and know that they may not be “missed” and an alarm raised for a long time and being pushed further and further away from land; sending her son to swim for shore and if something happened to him but they survived how she would have felt afterwards, then what must have been going through her mind for the hours that she was out there with the other two kiddies, wondering whether her son made it and they would be saved.
There was a cheeky comment re the IM swim cut off times as well, just FYI, this happened about 15-20 mins drive south of where IM Western Australia is held in Busselton….and there are many adventure based races etc held in this area. Its a beautiful part of our state.
1 Like
Very true.
Those bounces!!!
Also, using “the dagger” by Kevin Harland would come back in SB LIX by Kevin Burkhart
It’s not at all relaxing watching Honnold climb. My heart rate is far higher than his.
3 Likes
Touching the Void - Joe Simpson was pretty epic
2 men climb mountain, one cuts rope, man falls and then crawls out of crevace and back to camp
And then there’s the GOAT of GOATs
1 Like
ha, 26 and 30 points in 2 games against the Bill Russell Celtics…just sayin
Megavalanche!
1 Like
I can’t imagine paddling a prone for 19+ hours.
The Youtube algorithm blessed me with those a couple of years ago. I just don’t understand how they do it. Like the ones where a good rider starts at the back and passes riders the whole race.
So Lindsey Vonn placed 11th on her training run. Said she felt good and didn’t go all in.
Regardless of what we think she should or shouldn’t do, if she podiums, this is Epic 
1 Like
This is pretty epic:
Edwin Corley Moses is an American former hurdler who won gold medals in the 400 m hurdles at the 1976 and 1984 Olympics. Between 1977 and 1987, Moses won 107 consecutive finals (122 consecutive races) and set the world record in the event four times.
During this win streak, Moses did not lose a race for nine years, nine months, and nine days!
After losing to Danny Harris on June 4, 1987, Moses went on to win 10 more races in a row, collecting his second world gold in Rome in August of the same year.
@Kid
1 Like
Back in the day when I was a skier I hated hitting ice patches. Of course black ice on the road is even worse. But ice in my bourbon is very good….
1 Like
After covering the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami, Hunter Thompson decided to go for a dip in the Atlantic Ocean before retiring to his hotel for the night. Once he was in the water, a tropical storm appeared, and despite his best efforts, a nefarious riptide kept pulling him back out to sea. He swam all night, only successfully making it back to the shore at 9 A.M. the next morning.
The experience was used in “Rude Notes from a Decompression Chamber in Miami,” reprinted in the collection The Great Shark Hunt. In it, Thompson describes a scuba trip gone wrong, after which his character develops the Bends from the rapid ascent of 300 feet. He is placed in a decompression chamber to recuperate:
“When he finally regained his wits it was impossible to speak with him, except by means of a cracked loudspeaker tube & brief handwritten notes held up to the window. A television set was introduced to the chamber at his insistence and by extremely complicated maneuvering, he was able to watch the Watergate hearings … but due to the dangerous differences in pressurization he was unable to communicate anything but garbled notes on his impressions to Duke, his long-time friend and associate who flew to Miami immediately, at his own expense.”
Epic recovery in the men’s super-G downhill:
1 Like
Kerri Strug landed a vault on an injured ankle during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Despite tearing two ligaments in her ankle on her first attempt, she returned for a second vault to secure the team gold medal for the USA, famously saluting before collapsing in pain.
That was epic that he still finished 5th!