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 :-)

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“Goodfellow Air Force Base troops participated in the annual Polar Bear Swim.” Featuring a talking polar bear (or something)

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Read The Province She did all she could to help her team come close to a title … perhaps for the final time. Erica Morningstar, a two-time Olympian, won the 200m IM at the 2013 CIS swimming championships at the University of Calgary’s Aquatic Centre and then promptly announced to the crowd that it was the final meet of a terrific career in the pool, though she stopped short of uttering the word ‘retirement’. “I knew coming in that this was going to be my last meet, but I didn’t want to think about it that way because there was…

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Read Fox Sports West Tragedy struck the Studio City Harvard-Westlake campus on Friday when junior swimmer Justin Carr was involved in a “tragic swimming accident.” According to the Los Angeles Times, paramedics were called when Carr collapsed during a school workout. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Carr was 16 years old.

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Read stuff.co.nz A man is in hospital with multiple broken bones after jumping 15 metres from a cliff above the Waikanae River. The 21-year-old, believed to be of Paraparaumu, missed the water and landed on the riverbank about 6pm on Saturday. He broke bones in both legs, and suffered spinal injuries. He was reported to be in a stable condition in Wellington Hospital yesterday. The accident happened at a spot known as Devil’s Elbow, about 4 kilometres east of Waikanae, towards Reikorangi.

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Our older son Jákup readying himself for his first real swim competition, a 16 meter freestyle at the FLOT meet in Toftir, Faroe Islands on 23 February 2013. He did well, got a registered time and everything :-)

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