Author: rokur
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Missy Franklin visits paradise for a purpose
See 9News Bimini is the sound stage for a movie called The Current. It is a documentary that Boulder filmmaker Kurt Miller is making through his nonprofit MakeAHero.org. It is a documentary about people with physical challenges who learning to scuba dive. The ocean is the great equalizer. There are no limits or comparisons as…
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CC photo #500: SuSvim most winning team at Faroe Champs 2013
Group photo of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag at the 2013 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, the team that won most medals in total. Also, CC photo #500 :-)
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CC photo #499: That feeling
3rd and youngest on the team, peeking over at one of our local legends as their turn to race is closing in fast. He did well, Rólant, they were fastest but disqualified because of something that he had nothing to do with. And they got their revenge the day after.
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British journalist Rod Gilmour interviewed at the 2013 Faroe Champs
British journalist and author Rod Gilmour visited the Faroe Islands and the 2013 Faroese Short Course Swimming Championships this week, to do research for a book he is working on about Pál Joensen. Here is him being interviewed by Leivur Frederiksen at our national TV broadcasting company, during the second night of the Faroe Champs.
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CC photo #498: My seat at the Faroe Champs 2013
In my experience, the main rules of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy are eerily relevant to commenting swimming live on TV: Don’t panic, and carry a towel ;-) (Yes, I ended up in the pool. There is footage somewhere)
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CC photo #497: Swim Pool in Tórshavn ready for FM/JM 2013
Just a shot from outside of here on the 3rd and final night of the 2013 Faroese (Short Course) Swimming Championships. Flags are the most frustrating thing to shoot.
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Spanish doping doctor Fuentes’ secrets for sale
Read The Guardian The convicted sports-doping doctor Eufemiano Fuentes is threatening to reveal the dirty secrets of the world’s major sporting events as he offers to sell his story to newspapers after being convicted on public health charges in Spain for his role in helping top cyclists to cheat. Fuentes, considered one of international sport’s…
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Freediver Kimi Werner swims with Great White Shark
“Patagonia ambassador Kimi Werner strives to find her place in the ecosystem. She treads the line between predator and prey – eventually discovering balance in an unlikely place.”
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Federica Pellegrini flirting with Matteo Giunta?
While the Italian gossip magazines speculate a time of crisis between Filippo Magnini and Federica Pellegrini, the rumour is spreading that she has had an affair with Matteo Giunta. http://youtu.be/hfVVaPwMhnk