If you completed just 99.35% of something, chances are you’d be pretty pissed off. Sure, you might try to tell yourself that you accomplished a lot, but ultimately 99.35% is not 100%.

Italian rower Alex Bellini is in this situation after having spent the last 10 months rowing across the Pacific Ocean, only to have to call for help just 65 nautical miles from his destination in Australia. He made almost all of his 10,000 mile journey, but wisely realized he could not make it after facing storms off the Aussie coast.

He radioed for help and was towed ashore by a tugboat. Once on dry land again, his wife said he had lost over 30 pounds & looked confused, presumably thinking she was a mermaid of some sort.

Mr. Bellini put a positive spin on his trip.

“I didn’t put the cherry on top of the cake. But the cake is very good, very big and I will never forget about it,” he said.

“I did not fail,” he said, but had merely “asked for a tow” for the last few kilometers.

It would be easy to argue against that on a technicality, but considering his new priorities of eating, sleeping & spending time with his family are an ambitious day for many of you reading this, Alex Bellini accomplished something for sure.

Italian rescued 65 miles short of rowing Pacific Ocean solo [Telegraph.co.uk]

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The Pan-American games are going on right now. I wouldn’t have known either had I not read that story the other day about the Brazilian fencer getting stabbed by his brother.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro sure does know about the games though. He has been watching so much of the coverage that he has been forgetting to eat and take his medication.

Castro said: “I hardly take my eyes off the television. Sometimes I forget the time of some food or some pill. I don’t miss an event on the television: weightlifting, taekwando, rowing, cycling, beach volleyball.”

He also applauded women’s artistic gymnastics, calling it a “beautiful sport”.

Let’s see… beach volleyball, women’s gymnastics. We know what sort of pill Fidel is NOT forgetting to take.

Source: (Yahoo)

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