Author: rokur

Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

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‘Racial profiling at its worst!’ Man demands black woman show ID at NC swimming pool

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A woman says she was racially profiled by a man wanting her to provide identification to prove she belonged at a private community pool in North Carolina on the Fourth of July. Jasmine Edwards posted video of an exchange between herself, a man she refers to as Adam, and a couple of Winston-Salem police officers to Facebook on Wednesday afternoon. The video – which Edwards captioned “Racial profiling at its worst!” – had been viewed more than 4.3 million times by Friday morning. The Glenridge Homeowners Association told the Winston-Salem Journal the man’s name is Adam Bloom and that he was the…

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Competition

European Junior Swimming Championships, Helsinki (FIN), Day 3

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Vaskina breaks EJR, Frankel wins 100m free by 0.01 A great day for Israel: a thrilling win for Tomer Frankel in the men’s 100m free then a stunning relay gold in the men’s 4x200m free. Team GB and Hungary also claimed two titles apiece but Russia bettered them all again with three golds. Daria Vaskina came first in the 50m back with a new junior European record. Tomer Frankel won a thriller in the blue-ribband event among the men: the Israeli led all the way in the 100m free, Russia’s Andrei Minakov staged a great finish, still, his rival touched…

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