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 :-)

A former Stanford athlete was found guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting an unconscious intoxicated woman outside an on-campus fraternity party in a case that helped increase pressure on colleges nationwide to do more to prevent assaults and punish offenders. Brock Turner, 20, was convicted of three felony charges: assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated woman, sexually penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and sexually penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. District Attorney Jeff Rosen said the case helps make the distinction clear between consensual sex and sexual assault. “Drunk means no,” Rosen said.…

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Bermuda Olympic swimmer Roy-Allan Burch is at Bermuda’s National Sports Centre with fellow members of SwimMac, training for the Rio Olympics. Check the medal count and check what their favourite things were about Bermuda! https://vimeo.com/160816500

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The Barton County Sheriff’s Office found evidence for criminal charges against a suspect in the alleged sexual assault that happened Feb. 3 on a Great Bend USD 428 school bus that was heading back to Great Bend from a swim meet in Salina. According to the Barton County Sheriff’s Office, they have concluded the initial investigation. “It is our belief the investigation supports evidence that the following crimes occurred. These crimes include aggravated criminal sodomy, Battery and criminal restraint,” Barton County Sheriff Brian Bellendir said. Bellendir also mentioned that the criminal sodomy charge is normally a felony, but that might…

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USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour hosts with special guest and USAT Sports reporter Nicole Auerbach, who spent a day at the pool with American swimmer Ryan Lochte. The 11-time Olympic medalist teaches Nicole the fundamentals of the freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke and backstroke. See the video in its entirety at www.usatoday.com/videos/sports/ol…6/03/29/82373064. Then Nancy and Nicole talk about the talented crop of American swimmers for this year’s Games, including the experience of Lochte and Michael Phelps, and the emergence of Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky, from whom Nicole expects major things in Rio de Janeiro this summer. See USA Today https://youtu.be/Tp2vJ02mvQg

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