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 :-)

The UK’s biggest swimming charity event, Swimathon, celebrates its Silver Jubilee in Olympic year with a big splash planned for the weekend of 27th to 29th April 2012. Participants swimming for Marie Curie Cancer Care can choose from the individual 2.5Km or 5Km or Team/Corporate 5Km challenge while those opting to raise money for the Big Splash Mile for Sport Relief can take part individually or as part of a team. Sign up today, the first 10,000 people get it for half price! :-) Here is the Swimathon promo video from 2011 … Via Googleblog

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Russian head coach Andreid Vorontsov and Valentina Artemyeva winner of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Champonships’ women’s 50 and 100 meter breaststroke, lifting the championships trophy outside the Radisson Blu hotel. Russia won by a clear margin of 901 points, followed by Italy (768), Germany (625), Great Britain (590), Poland (490) and Denmark (471), see ecszczecin2011.eu.

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OK, this is nice but also a bit spooky: A video from when John Caughlin and Mike Mitchell swam the Maui Channel in September 2011, up until (but thankfully not including) the accident when Caughlin got hit by a boat propeller. Follow Caughlin on his recovery blog “Life after 615”. Maui Channel Swim 2011 – Swimmers: John Caughlin & Mike Michell from McKeever Photography on Vimeo.

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Glamour and glitter dominating the international World Sports Awards gala in London, early 2001. Featuring Inge de Bruijn, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Michael Klim, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Thorpe, 007 actor Roger Moore and Mark Spitz cracking jokes. Swimmers dominating the World Water Sports Awards 2000, even with rower Steven Redgrave on home turf. Courtesy of jostalgie.nl. World Sports Awards 2000 from Jos van Kuijeren on Vimeo.

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Olympic legend Michael Phelps has according to the New York Post split with his longtime girlfriend Nicole Johnsen, a former Miss California. She travelled with him to Shanghai 2011, but sources say now that the couple broke up a few weeks ago, and that Phelps is telling friends he’s single. Bleacher Report speculates if this is a bad omen of things to come for Phelps, that he’ll loose focus with London 2012 only half a year away. Aussie bookies are betting on him getting back together with old flame Stephanie Rice. Image courtesy of Charis Tsevis, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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The Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) announced yesterday evening following a meeting between Federica Pellegrini and national swimming team coaches that her new coach will be the same as Magnini’s, and that her preparation for the London 2012 Olympics starts with a 20 day long altitude camp in Flagstaff, Arizona on January 8. After the training camp she’ll be based in Rome, and also spend time training along with the rest of the Italy swimming team at the national training centres in Ostia and Verona. FIN president Paolo Barelli said at the end of the meeting, that “the agreed training schedule…

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Procter & Gamble has announced that Olympic open-water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne has been selected as the latest ambassador for its Oral-B dental brand, as official face of the Oral-B Triumph 5000 with Smart Guide power brush and Pro-Expert toothpaste. Procter & Gamble has as we know also selected Payne to represent its Max Factor brand award-winning False Lash Effect Gold, as part of the company’s efforts to bolster its presence at the London 2012 Games. Via zenopa.com

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