Best swimming race. Ever

I am not a big fan of swim races. (Although I DOMINATED all swimming events back at West Jerusalem High. I can walk on water! BOOYA! It is a nice power to have for swim races). Watching people swim is really boring. Especially when the race is 10k. That is over 2 hours!!! But whoever is the promoter of this event just may have found a way to get me to watch. Add jellyfish to the equation. Awesome!

No one really looked like a winner when it was over. They staggered onto dry land, just glad to have survived 6.2 miles of cool waters, rough tactics and all those nasty creatures lurking beneath the surface of Port Phillip Bay.

"I could hear girls screaming on the first lap when they got stung," said Ilchenko, who defended her 10k world championship after winning a fourth consecutive 5k title Sunday.

Now THAT is a swim race. Maybe next time they can have jet ski-ers with tazer guns shooting girls if they go to slow. And sharks with freakin lazer beams on their heads. Whoever put this race together is an entertainment genius. This could be the first televised swim event where more than just the families and friends of the swimmers would watch.