Author: rokur
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Another high school coach arrested on suspicion of sexual conduct with student
A California high school water polo and swim coach was arrested Friday after detectives found probable cause to believe that he had engaged in sexual conduct with a student at the school, police said. “It’s the same old story of a coach taking advantage of their position and coercing a minor into a relationship,” an…
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SCSSE 2012 Day 1 – Iceland rules the pool
After this first of two days of the Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe, Iceland must be clearly in the lead in the nations competition, having won 9 out of 18 events plus quite a few minor and junior medals also. See result list here, I list the winners in the senior competition…
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How not to ruin a swimming prodigy
Interesting article here on The Wall Street Journal, on how Missy Franklin’s coach Todd Schmitz has focused on fun and avoiding burnout, ever since she started training on his team at the age of 7. Many coaches with a prodigy in their stable would choose to increase her workouts to test her potential. But in…
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CC photo #155: Damir Dugonjic European champion in the 50 breaststroke
Slovenia’s Damir Dugonjic of the Debrecen 2012 medal podium, after winning the men’s 50 meter breaststroke in 27.32, ahead of Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli in 27.49 and Greece’s Panagiotis Samilidis in 27.64. See result list here.
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Live Stream from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2012 finals this weekend (!)
YES, the organizers of the Mare Nostrum 2012 meet in Barcelona this weekend announce here that there will be a live webcast from the finals here starting today at 16:00 local time (14:00 UTC) and tomorrow from 16:15 (14:14 UTC), courtesy of Esport 3. That’s in about two hours :-) Results can be found here.
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3rd Swimming Championships of the Small States of Europe this weekend
This weekend Andorra hosts the 3rd Swimming Championship of the Small States of Europe, featuring 13 swimmers from Luxembourg, 15 from Gibraltar, 6 from Malta, 4 from Cyprus, 2 from Montenegro, 23 from Iceland, 13 from San Marino and 33 from the host country Andorra, plus additional participant in the simultaneous 5th Andorra Open.
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Virgin’s free London Underground WiFi up and running
Not to be outdone by BT, Virgin takes to the London Underground, supplying at least 80 stations with free WiFi in time for the Olympics, switching to pay-as-you-go model in about 120 stations by the end of the year. Read more here on Engadget and here on Slashgear.
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Sweden selects 5 more swimmers for their Olympic squad
Yesterday the Swedish Swimming Federation announced 5 more names on the Swedish London 2012 roster, Stefan Nystrand and Stina Gardell for individual swims and Michelle Coleman, Ida Marko-Varga and Gabriella Fagundez for the women’s 4×100 freestyle relay.
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1960 Women’s National AAU Championships
Highlights of the 1960 Women’s National AAU Championships, sponsored by Phillips Petroleum at its Bartlesville, OK headquarters.