Author: rokur
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Sycerika McMahon named Swim Ireland’s High Performance Athlete of the Year 2012
Read SportsNews Ireland McMahon had an outstanding year in 2012, winning two European medals, silver in the 50m Breaststroke at the European Long Course Swimming Championships in May and Bronze in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in December. The 17 year old qualified and competed at the London Olympic Games…
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Explosions hit the Boston Marathon, people killed and injured
See all major news sources. Our deepest sympathies with all those affected. BostonPolice looking for video of the finish line #tweetfromthebeat via @cherylfiandaca — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) April 15, 2013
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Stephanie Rice has street named after her in Wodonga
Read the Herald Sun With a new sign in Wodonga, developers have named Rice Street after Australian gold medal swimmer Stephanie Rice. […] “She is one of our greatest Olympians, so we were very keen to name a street after her,” development co-director Andrew Stern said. “We just thought the Olympic gold medal scene really…
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DeSantis shocked by the drums at Danish swim meets
Read The Swim Brief Now, I try not to give out too much advice in this blog, but here is one very important piece. When flying to another country, crossing six time zones, and then trying to blow right through the time change on your way to a meet, then pondering whether you could possibly…
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CC photo #471: Køge Open 2007 Opening Ceremony
Officials lined up in front of the flags at the Køge Open 2007.
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CC photo #470: Me walking a window sill at the KlaksvÃk National 2008
As you see, very gracefully – We were doing a stunt with slow motion replay which meant we had to climb up under the roof, and I don’t like heights. We (the Faroese) have by the way lost our internet connections with the world this evening, because of a ‘surgical strike’ to our internet provider’s…
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CC photo #469: Forest of flags at Shanghai 2011
Very impressive, also because of the strong wind that day at the FINA 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China.
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CC photo #468: Father and son at the 2011 Stockholm World Cup
Just a photo from the FINA 2011 World Cup leg in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Paul Biedermann to miss Barcelona 2013 due to illness
Read SwimNews Announcing his withdrawal from the German world-title trials and championships at the end of this month, the 26-year-old revealed that he suffered a viral infection that kept him from intense training for the past two months. “Unfortunately, an infection has allowed no optimum training during the last two months,” he said in a…