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 :-)

This documentary shows a very human Thorpe and his struggle to come back from retirement. In related news, Thorpe reveals dark days when, in 2010, he confirmed his financial empire was in ruins. And he answers the other question, if he sleeps with men and women. Read news.com.au “Being asked about (being gay) gets annoying,” he says. “I think people feel threatened by me because they can’t define exactly what I am.”

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On this penultimate day of the Antwerp 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships, Russia jumped even more ahead in the medal race, now at 11 gold medals, 4 silver and 1 bronze, Germany in second with 5 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze, and Italy in third with 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze. The Russian relays have now won 3 gold and 1 bronze, Russia’s Mariya Baklakova joining double gold medal winners Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Iuliia Larina (RUS). (Attendees at the Antwerp 2012 European Juniors should know this song by now) Boys 200 backstroke After having won the…

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After three days of racing at the Antwerp 2012 European Swimming Championships, Russia is still clearly in the lead with 8 gold medals, 3 silver and 1 bronze, ahead of Italy’s 4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, and Germany’s 3 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze. Most winning swimmer(s) is now Russias relay teams with 2 gold and 1 bronze, the individuals still Italys Gabriele Detti and Russia’s Iuliia Larina with 2 gold medals each. (Mie at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup) Boys 200 butterfly Great Britain’s Matthew Johnson took the gold in 1:58.50 ahead of Russia’s Andrey Tambovskiy…

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On the Fourth of July, Alexandra Anderson, 13, and brother Brayden, 8, were killed while swimming near a private dock in the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri around noon Wednesday. Two hours later, at Cherokee Lake outside Knoxville, Tenn., a 10-year-old was killed and another boy was seriously injured in an eerily similar incident. Read more here on ABC News video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player

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Thomas Lopez, a lifeguard at Florida’s Hallandale Beach, was fired Monday for leaving his official work zone in order save the life of a drowning swimmer. Apparently two other lifeguards have been fired for backing him, and four others have quit. “I ran out to do the job I was trained to do,” Lopez, 21, of Davie, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. “I didn’t think about it at all.” https://youtu.be/zy0rQAEy9dc https://youtu.be/CzGOUyFD1sM https://youtu.be/7QTogGVvj4c https://youtu.be/rQyJctQpQ00 I say give the man a medal, and give his boss the boot. (Update – Actually they did end up giving him a kind of medal) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu4D_O2tSgU…

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