Author: rokur
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CC photo #633: Radosław Kawęcki at Debrecen 2012
A photo from the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Poland’s RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki posing with his 200 meter backstroke gold medal, see the result list here.
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The Herning 2013 mascot named Harald Bluetooth
Breaking news off Facebook Post by EM i svømning 2013.
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Meet Japan’s badass, elderly freediving women
Via Breitbart – “In Japan, elderly women freedive every day to collect shellfish, a fishing tradition that is struggling to hook the next generation.” See also Tokyo Times: “Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as “amas†or “sea womenâ€. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have…
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Becoming Men – Short film about the Grand Canal freestyle diving kids
“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.” via The Irish Times, thanks John! Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
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Training Katie Ledecky for World Championships, by Bruce Gemmell, Part 1 (2013)
“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.” Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
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Visually impaired student trains for long distance swim
Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
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Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma
Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dk European Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the…