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 :-)

Organization

Nick Juba ends tenure as National Head Coach of Denmark

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After four very successful years in Danish swimming, Nick Juba will end his tenure as National Head Coach when his contract with the Danish Swimming Federation expires at the end of the year. The World Short-Course will therefore be the Brit’s last Championships in charge of the Danish National Team. The period from 2013 to 2016 has featured an impressive array of successful international results for Danish swimming sport. Denmark has won 26 medals, and secured 46 4th to 8th positions at the major long-course Championships [the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the European Championships], performing at a historically…

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Competition

Coach Graham Hill on South Africa’s Drain: “Chad’s Gone – It Mustn’t Happen Again”

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Graham Hill, mentor to Chad le Clos and generations of South African national teamsters before him, is rolling out a series of videos that warn his country that it has to make changes in its approach to sport to avoid its talent draining away. The coach is speaking in the wake of parting company with Le Clos after 14 years. In the first of two videos (watch them below) under the project title “The Hill”, he throws the debate out beyond the pool when he notes: “At the moment, I think we’ve fallen behind the rest of the world (leading…

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Crime

Fancy Bears release 6th batch of hacked WADA data

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British triathlete Alistair Brownlee, Australian swimmer Emily Seebohm and New Zealand rower Mahé Drysdale are among another 20 athletes whose leaked data has been revealed by Russian group Fancy Bears’ after the cyber-attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Read Inside the Games

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Safety

German Lifeguards Test a Low-Flying Drone to Save Swimmers

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For a swimmer struggling to stay above the water’s surface, even a low-flying robot may offer some glimmer of hope. Even better is if that drone carries a self-inflating flotation device, keeping the swimmer afloat in time for lifeguards to drag them back to the shore. That’s the goal behind Microdrones’ demonstration with the German Lifeguard Association. After alerting a lifeguard to swim out, the drone is piloted to the struggling swimmer. Once overhead, it drops the “RESTUBE,” a rapidly self-inflating flotation device. According to a release from Microdrones: “One of the greatest obstacles to rescuing a drowning swimmer is that…

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Fun

‘Average Andy’ with Michael Phelps

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Ellen debuted her newest segment, in which her executive producer Andy learns new skills from the world’s most talented people. This time, Andy joins Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps in the pool! https://youtu.be/HV1mUB8o5QI

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