Category: Organization
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Boat race swimmer banned from going with 100 meter of the (extensive) Olympic torch route
35-year-old Trenton Oldfield who on April 7 stopped the 158th annual Boat Race by swimming between the boats was yesterday banned from the Olympic torch route and celebrations for the Queen’s Jubilee. Now, that is a lot of ground covered over time, since the Flame will come within 10 miles of 95% of people in…
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CC photo #114: The NEG 2012 group photo (opposite direction)
So this is Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, taking a group photo of us all (minus him) just before our foreign friends boarded the busses to the airport (yes, I’m an ass showing you this photo instead of his :-). That rock behind him is Faroese artist Tróndur Patursson’s sculpture “Stone with…
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CC photo #113: Speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar
Just a teaser … they had set up a real soap box speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar yesterday evening, as part of the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. And we actually had 4 people stand up on the box and speak, on tape and in my possession ;-)
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Deaf swimmer Marcus Titus gets hand signals reinstated at US Trials
This is great, USA Swimming decided Thursday to allow hand signals at the U.S. Olympic Trials to accommodate deaf swimmers at the start of the races, reversing the organization’s decision issued less than 48 hours earlier, more or less because of campaign on Facebook started byone of the nation’s top breaststroker and deaf athlete Marcus…
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CC photo #112: Our conference poster up at Hotel Føroyar
A nice touch up at Hotel Føroyar, where most of our foreign guests stay during the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching this weekend.
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11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching launched
So I’m a bit busy filming and doing other stuff, and it seems that at the same time this website is struggling because of going over the allocated memory resources (read: too much success :-). But the conference is on, first lecturer Jens Bruun is speaking, see www.neg2012.com. And by the way, I’m putting pictures…
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Texas ‘Mud Race’ death won’t stop next month’s race in Houston
Texas officials are trying to determine how a man died during a challenging and at times chaotic obstacle race called the “Original Mud Run†last weekend, but race organizers are going ahead with another mud run for next month. Read more here on ABC News.
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Anthony Ervin talks to kids at diversity clinic
2000 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin visited the Ossining Aquatics Center on Sunday to speak to about 100 aspiring swimmers on the Spartans Swim Team at Metropolitan Swimming’s diversity clinic. Read lohud.com