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  • ‘To Row An Ocean’, a film about Livar Nysted

    ‘To Row An Ocean’, a film about Livar Nysted

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    A really nice short film about extreme ocean rower Livar Nysted, the other true (living) sports hero of the Faroe Islands. Livar is an extremely grounded person, in the photo below he is giving free rides to children in a dressed-up rowing boat at the annual “Seaman’s Day” in Klaksvík.

  • Iron lady Katinka Hosszu raced 36 times during the 2013 Bergen Swim Festival

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    Read Speed Endurance She was entered in 15 events, placed for the final in all of them, and with the 50 meter dashes being arranged as skins the races really added up for the girl dubbed swimmings «Iron Lady». For the skins she only miscalculated in the first heat of the 50 meters butterfly, otherwise…

  • Deep End Dance

    Deep End Dance

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    A short dance film, written and performed by David Bolger (choreographer and artistic director of CoisCéim Dance Theatre, Dublin) along with his 76-year-old mother, Madge Bolger. The film was shot in the Marian College swimming pool, where Madge worked as a swimming instructor for many years and where she taught David to swim. Deep End…

  • Robbie Renwick aiming to defend Commonwealth title

    Robbie Renwick aiming to defend Commonwealth title

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    Robbie Renwick is firmly fixed on defending his 200 freestyle Commonwealth Games title when he competes at Glasgow 2014.

  • Behold Fake Shower, the app that disguises your bathroom noises

    Behold Fake Shower, the app that disguises your bathroom noises

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    Via Laughing Squid Should you feel shy about the noises you make in the bathroom, the folks at Akatu have developed an iOS app to disguise them called Fake Shower. It emulates the sound of running water (either from a shower or open tap) and measures how much water you’ve saved by using the app…

  • Jessica Hardy spins out, crashes car during Toyota Grand Prix

    Jessica Hardy spins out, crashes car during Toyota Grand Prix

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    See Swimming World Magazine We all know Jessica Hardy as an Olympic Gold medalist and world record holder. But, this past weekend, the Southern California native set out to prove that she could handle the wheel at the Celeb/Pro Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach. Sorry @toyotaracing that I crashed your car, but I hope…

  • Australian swimming suffers high-performance funding cut

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    Read for instance AFP Two of Australia’s biggest Olympic sports, swimming and athletics, had their annual high-performance funding cut on Monday by the government-backed Australian Sports Commission (ASC). Swimming, the best-funded of Australian sports saw its 2013-14 allocation from the ASC reduced by 5.8 percent to Aus$8,165,000 ($8,389,000). Athletics Australia’s high-performance funding was cut by…

  • Arkady Vyatchanin to switch nationalities

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    Read AFP Two-time Olympic medal winner Arkady Vyatchanin has decided to quit swimming for Russia and represent another country, the Allsport news agency reported on Monday. “I believe that I can offer nothing else to Russian swimming,” Vyatchanin was quoted as saying at the Russian Cup final in Kazan. “I will continue my swimming performances…

  • The Instabeat swim HUD raises K in 5 days

    The Instabeat swim HUD raises $11K in 5 days

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    Stuff is happening for Lebanese entrepreneur Hind Hobeika and her team of engineers – Since launching their Indigogo fundraising campaign last week to help get the Instabeat swimming monitor to market, they have now raised $11,145 dollars of the $35,000 goal, with 57 days left. Wamda asks if this is ‘The Arab World’s Hottest Hardware…