Year: 2012
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Temporary job opening at SuSvim
Jón Bjarnason head coach of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is searching for a temp, see Facebook: “If you are a job seeking swim coach, or if you know someone who is, let me know. Perhaps you would like to experience the Faroe Islands for a few weeks, starting in less than 3 weeks so hurry up :-)…
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Partially deaf dancer gets breakthrough underwater hearing aid
30-year-old Kirsty Swain finished fourth in the BBC talent show So You Think You Can Dance, this summer. She has been hearing-impaired since childhood, and suffered exclusion and embarrasment from wearing hearing aids, struggling with hearing rythm while dancing, and with getting hearing aid that could withstand the sweats and rigours of an active lifestyle.…
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CC photo #11: Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa looking all business in Rijeka 2008
Spain’s ‘phelpsian‘ Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa, winner of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships 400 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM, and the Dubai 2010 World Championships (25m) 200 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM. 200 fly and 200 IM won on the same night in Szczecin, 200 fly and 400 IM on the same…
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Liquipel, another waterproofing coating for your iPhone
Similar to the NeverWetâ„¢ spray-on coating and HzO, but now with what (for us traditional thinkers) seems like a more cumbersome (and therefore professional?) approach involving sending in your iPhone and having the coating put on in a vacuum chamber. Also I like that they still warn you about putting the iPhone in water, even…
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The History of Swimming Hand Paddles
Swimmers use a variety of hand paddles to build strength and improve their stroke technique, but few know that the original inventor of hand paddles was Benjamin Frankin.
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Victoria’s Secret Swim 2012: Angels, Islands and Tiny Swimsuits
Practical clothing in some exotic country I guess. Here in the Faroes, I’m just happy to have survived the drive home through the storm tonight. Sigh.
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CC photo #10: Milorad Čavić handing his bouquet to some girl at Rijeka 2008
Serbia’s Milorad Cavic handing his bouquet of flowers to some girl at the Rijeka 2008 LEN European Short Course Championships. This after having won gold in the men’s 100 meter butterfly, in 49.19 ahead of Spain’s Rafael Muñoz Pérez (49.74) and Russia’s Nikolay Skvortsov (49.98).
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London 2012 Olympic Park fly-through
As of January 2012, with Jonathan Edwards giving us an update on the progress.
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Germans do polar bear swims too, here the 14. Dresden New Year’s Swim
Some 116 brave souls headed for the Elbe River this morning for the 14th annual Dresden New Year’s swim, facing pouring rain and muddy water about 2°C (35.6°F). Organizers asked participants to come in costume and many obliged. Read The Local