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 Daily Progress Virginia graduate (2011) and swimming legend Matt McLean has conquered that interior battle like few others. In a specialty, distance freestyle, which demands mental discipline, he has ascended to the top of the national and world rankings thanks to a gargantuan 6-foot-6, 220-pound frame and a cerebral, measured mental approach. After second- and third-place finishes in the 400- and 200-meter freestyle races at the National Championships two weekends ago, he will compete at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona later this month. “This is a man that’s got all the tools,†said Jon Urbanchek, a former…
Read for instance Live Tennis Guide Sabine Lisicki has suffered a double blow as she lost in Wimbledon final and her affair with the Olympic swimmer Benjamin Starke is over. She is the latest sensation in Wimbledonafter beating the World No.1 Serena Williams in quarter final. Before that there was not much buzz around her. Image courtesy of Zennie Abraham, CC BY-ND 2.0
Read and watch WGNtv.com The Boys & Girls Clubs swim camp on Chicago’s west side is one of ten across the country this year and is inspired by one family`s water tragedy. 6-year-old Zachary Cohn of Connecticut drowned in 2007 after getting caught in a pool drain. He is the namesake for the Zac Foundation which was started by his parents who are now partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to teach kids not only how to swim, but to avoid danger. Karen and Brian Cohn, a Chicagoland native has also written a children’s book in Zac’s…
Read The Australian Olympic swimmer Scott Miller will fight stealing and drugs charges after pleading not guilty in a Sydney court. The 38-year-old made a brief appearance in Waverley Local Court on Wednesday. The Edgecliff resident was arrested on the morning of June 18 at a home in Mascot and charged. Police allege they found three small, resealable bags of methylamphetamine totalling 1.04g in his possession. Miller also had $1900 in cash, police allege, and an additional $14,700 found in a vehicle at the Mascot address. VIDEO: Swim star Scott Miller faces court
Just a photo from the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Daniela Schreiber’s (GER) starting position on lane 4 gave it away, and the big screen up in the right corner confirms it. See the start list here. Schreiber ended up winning bronze in the final, see the result list here.
Harpenden Swimming Club has developed this Fantasy Swimming Barcelona 2013 online game, in which you can challenge fellow swimmers and parents and the rest of the world to who can make the best Barcelona 2013 prediction. Three teams are entered as we speak, so if you hurry you can make the top of that list at least :-)
LEN and the Organizing Committee of the Arena European Junior Swimming Championships – Poznan 2013 inform us that LIVE WEBCAST transmission will be available here on the official website of the European Junior Championships. At the moment they are replaying the preliminaries. Awesome! Start lists and live results here. The live webcast will be available during the entire championships from July 10th to 14th with morning sessions at 09:00 and afternoon sessions at 17:00 according to the competition schedule.