Author: rokur
-
Zambia National Swimming Coach Proud of his Swimmers
See MUVI TV Zambia National Swimming Coach Ian Stephenson says he is proud of his swimmers despite the country’s poor showing at the just ended All Africa Junior Swimming Championships. (Warning, the telephone conversation is really loud)
-
CC photo #697: Still kicking
Now all together, a fun little competition – one length of kicking, all out – where each team has a noodle, and no one is allowed to let go of it. In this case hopelessly unfair, the big boys versus the small boys versus the girls. They still give it a go, though, the little…
-
Fox News: YMCA swim class for Muslim girls proves Sharia law is ‘changing everything’
Read The Raw Story Fox News anchor Heather Nauert announced on Monday that a YMCA swim class that respected the religious traditions of Muslim girls was proof that “Sharia law is now changing everything.†The News Corpse calls it fear mongering.
-
GA swimming coach Dick Shoulberg takes leave of absence
Read Philly.com Germantown Academy’s revered swimming coach, Dick Shoulberg, is on leave because of “a personnel issue,” a school administrator said Monday. In an e-mail to parents last month, the school announced that assistant coach Claire Crippen would serve as acting director and acting head coach of the girls’ team in Shoulberg’s absence. Assistant coach…
-
TV Midt Vest visits the Herning 2013 pool builders
See tvmidtvest.dk, via SwimNews.dk ‘In Herning they are preparing for the European Short Course Championships, which means that Boxen (‘the Box’) is being transformed into a pool’
-
How two guys mapped all the pools in Los Angeles
Read Los Angeles Times “Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra. Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their…
-
Behold these Siberian percussionists playing on a frozen lake
These are the IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT», playing on the frozen Lake Baikal.
-
Lithuanians react to Meilutyte’s win at London 2012
A YouTube video published by the Lithuanian National Radio and Television on July 31, 2012, the day after Ruta Meilutyte won the women’s 100 meter breaststroke final at the London 2012 Olympics. Video apparently the emotions in the Lithuanian London 2012 studio. You don’t need to understand Lithuanian, to understand what they are saying :-)…
-
“This Baby’s Going To Be An Olympic Champion”
Just you wait until she can climb up on the start block herself Video text hints that this is a girl named Arabel at the Aura Keskus waterpark in Tartu, Estonia. http://youtu.be/ie3ZSrggJ9A