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 :-)

Fun

Michael Phelps takes a not-too-subtle shot at Olympic rival in new commercial for Intel

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Maybe the most memorable moment of the 2016 Rio Olympics occurred prior to the 200-meter butterfly when Michael Phelps was shown with a menacing and somewhat disgusted look on his face while his chief rival, Chad Le Clos of South Africa, was shadow-boxing-dancing-something in the foreground. Many assumed Phelps was annoyed by Le Clos and whatever he was doing. But no matter the reason, in those few seconds, a meme was born: #PhelpsFace. Intel recreated that moment in a new commercial starring Phelps and Jim Parsons. While the commercial has Phelps mimic the PhelpsFace as the result of a slow…

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Organization

Workers threaten to sue Rio Olympics over late payments

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Nearly 2 ½ months after the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, hundreds of workers still haven’t been paid and are planning to sue the local organizing committee to get their money. Among those late getting paid are about 100 freelance contractors who worked as stadium announcers, show producers and DJs, and several hundred others who worked for the Olympic News Service, which produced written summaries about the sports and athletes at the Olympics and subsequent Paralympics. “I’m working with a legal firm that is already representing someone involved with Rio 2016, so they have a pretty good handle what is going…

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Open Water

Ranking the World’s Toughest Outdoor Sports

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“Swimming is 20 percent physical endurance and 80 percent mental endurance,” says Elizabeth Fry, one of four swimmers ever to have completed the Double Triple Crown—twice swimming the English Channel, Catalina Channel, and the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. In addition to the tremendous exposure these athletes face—and the mental and physical challenges that exposure presents—Fry says the hardest parts of open-water swimming are dialing in your hourly feeding schedule, fitting in a time-intensive training regimen, and adhering to your safety protocol. Read OutsidePhoto by Sonic Fitness

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Competition

Alia Atkinson 28.64 and World Record in the 50m SC Breaststroke

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Four-time Olympian Alia Atkinson of Jamaica set a new World Record in the 50m breast on Day 2 of the FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup in Tokyo, earlier this week. Atkinson established a new time of 28.64, previously kept by Jessica Hardy of the United States (28.80), making here the female top scorer of the Tokyo meet together with Vladimir Morozov (RUS) for the male’s award. Read FINA https://youtu.be/CxxBd-8I7p8

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Competition

Wada reveals up to 50% of drug tests at 2016 Olympic Games had to be aborted

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A Wada report into the anti-doping operation employed at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has criticised “serious failings”, with up to half of all planned drug tests aborted on some days because the athletes could not be found. The 55-page World Anti-Doping Agency Independent Observers report accused the management team in the Rio 2016 anti-doping department of “a lack of coordination”, which it said contributed to putting an almost unmanageable strain on drug testing at competition venues and the Athletes Village. The build-up to the 2016 Olympics was dominated by a doping scandal, with Russia not given a blanket ban…

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