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 :-)

Read The Sydney Morning Herald It is actually pretty amazing there is not more former Olympic swimmers snorting coke and ice and Stilnox because if there is a sport tailor-made for producing sociopaths and depressives, it has got to be swimming. Imagine spending endless hours staring at the bottom of a pool, gulping chlorinated water, churning out 20 kilometres while you obsess about the shitty comment your girlfriend made the night before and the fact every person your age’s idea of a good time doesn’t involve a stopwatch and Laurie Lawrence. Then you get up the next day at 4am…

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Read SwimVortex Yuliya Efimova, of Russia, has been thrown a lifeline to a home World Championships and the defence of two world titles in Kazan next year by a 16-month suspension in the wake of a positive doping test for a steroid. The ruling, which coincides with the start of the Russian Championships in Moscow, includes acceptance that the banned substance was indeed in the 22-year-old’s body and that she took it. The conclusion notes, however, that she did not intend to cheat and that language issues were at play: she failed to read a product label and that had…

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Read SwimmingWorld Birkerød, Denmark. Tonight, Sigma Swim arranged a fun and spectator friendly “War Of The Great Danes,” in connection with their annual sponsor event. Six of the best Danish male swimmers competed in an elimination challenge, consisting of five rounds of 50 meter sprints, starting every 3 minutes. The swim stroke was decided by luck of the draw; and after each round, the slowest swimmer was eliminated. […] In the end, it was Faroese born Magnus Jakupsson who proved the strongest, winning the final against London 2012 Olympian Daniel Skaaning. Magnus is Danish champion in the 50, 100 and 200…

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Read The Guardian Much to the disappointment of those hoping for an action replay of the heady summer of 2012, the International Olympic Committee has rejected as “totally unfeasible” claims that London could step in for troubled Rio to host the 2016 Olympics. A report in the London Evening Standard has claimed that the capital had been secretly sounded out as a last-ditch replacement for Rio, whose preparations were damned as the “worst ever” by an IOC vice-president last month. But the suggestion was immediately knocked down by the IOC in the strongest terms. “This is simply a non-starter – totally without foundation and totally unfeasible.…

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See glasgow.stv.tv We recently brought you the news that the Baths’ training pool will reopen at the venue next month, and events like Hamlet are designed to help reinvigorate the building and remind people of its potential. Mr Downie said: “We’ve got a lot planned here to help regenerate and restore the building. Hamlet and other plays like this will hopefully create interest in the building as a community and arts centre. “We want to restore the pools, but also make it so much more than that. Plays like Hamlet allow us to remind people of what is possible with…

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Read The Buffalo News The third body from a Virginia hot-air balloon crash was recovered this morning, making it a certainty that Natalie M. Lewis, a record-setting swimmer from Buffalo’s Nardin Academy, was among those who died in the disaster. Lewis, who went on to star in college competition, had been missing and presumed dead after the horrific accident Friday night that was witnessed by hundreds of onlookers in central Virginia.

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See CNET Strapped in with a five-point harness, and crammed into a space hardly bigger than me, I was comfortable, actually, and so off we went. Down, toward the edge of darkness. It was a gorgeous Thursday earlier this month, and I was sitting in the rear seat in the DeepFlight SuperFalcon, a two-person submersible designed to “fly” the world’s oceans.

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See wbtv.com A Mooresville woman is recovering after she was bitten by a shark while in the ocean near Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. Kimberly Popp says she was in the water about knee-deep on Tuesday afternoon at Coligny Beach when something hit her foot and she felt the bite. When she lifted her leg out of the water, she saw a shark latched on to her foot. “We looked eye to eye,” she said. She punched the shark in the nose until it let go.

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