Author: rokur
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Behold these Awesome Photos from the Bergen Swim Festival 2014
A selection of photos from the Bergen Swim Festival 2014, courtesy of swim fan, dad and photographer friend Kjell Eirik Irgens Henanger. You can see more of his work here on Flickr.
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Man missing after a canoe overturns in Orange Park, Jacksonville
See News4Jax One of three people who were in a canoe that overturned in an Orange Park lake in the middle of the night remains missing. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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Swimming made Sue Walsh who she is
Read The Buffalo News It’s hard to fathom, but Sue Walsh is about to send her youngest child off to college. Shawn Stankavage is headed for Vanderbilt on a football scholarship. Kids these days would compare him to Johnny Manziel, but his mother’s generation would see the next Fran Tarkenton. It’s hard to fathom because…
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RNLI Lifeboat Crew Lasso Runaway Speedboat
Read The Telegraph A lifeboat crew stopped an out-of-control speedboat by lassoing it. The six-metre vessel went into a spin when its skipper, Peter Channing, 66, was trying to moor up and accidentally knocked the throttle. He was thrown overboard and had taken off his kill chord — a safety device attached to his leg…
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Girl Surrounded by Dolphins while Wakeboarding
Awesome! Wakeboard from Anko James on Vimeo.
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Danes coin Faroese Pier Plunging Craze as BreakNekNomination
See The Copenhagen Post (and our original story here) After all, why peer-pressure somebody into sinking a few shots, when you can dare them to risk life and limb to sink like a stone into the icy waters of a built-up harbour? So yeah, the shame is on us. The fad has btw passed by…
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For Ryan Lochte, signs of change all around
Read Washington Post Ryan Lochte walks slowly into the room, a bulky brace on his left knee. He’s still got that same goofball demeanor, that same unique sense of fashion (on this day, he’s wearing a fedora with his trademark phrase “Jeah†embroidered across the back). But the signs of change are all around. He’s…
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Michael Phelps brings back swimming
Read Los Angeles Post-Examiner Sports needed this. Swimming needed this. And of course, Baltimore needed this. Michael Phelps is back, which means swimming is back and even more importantly, it means one of the most underappreciated sports rivalries is back: Phelps vs. Ryan Lochte. You can’t have a sport without a rivalry, which makes fans…
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New Qantas ‘ditching procedures’ require passengers to swim away if life rafts aren’t used
Read The Australian New ‘ditching procedures’ for 737s instruct cabin crew to tell passengers to jump into the water and “swim away†if a plane goes down and life rafts are not used. The document comes as a war of words has erupted between Qantas and South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon, who is critical of the…