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  • Catching Up with Holland Swimmer – Taylor Garcia

    Mar 9, 2016

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    rokur
    in Competition

    https://youtu.be/Z1hd9m79Ts4

  • Mentality Of A Swimmer

    Mar 9, 2016

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    rokur
    in Training

    Perhaps this is why I am so driven color and push on the way that I do. I’ve been swimming my whole life. I was on the varsity swim team all through High School. We had to be a rescue swimmer for the Navy.

    https://youtu.be/Uup_ON_F_-w

  • Watch Michael Phelpsโ€™s emotional reaction to his new Under Armour ad

    Mar 9, 2016

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Under Armor released a new ad Tuesday, the latestย in its โ€œRule Yourselfโ€ series, this one featuring Michael Phelps. The artful spot makes the point that the 30-year-oldย swimmer isย sparing no element of training as he prepares for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro coming this summer.

    https://youtu.be/Xh9jAD1ofm4

    On Monday, Under Armour released a video that showed the reactions of Phelps and his fiancee, Nicole Johnson, as they were shown the new ad. First, Johnson grew teary-eyed at โ€œknowing what he sacrificedโ€ and seeing it portrayed on the screen, and then Phelps did the same.

    See Washington Post

    https://youtu.be/BQOTxRS7Pfk

  • Mexican Swimming Federation President Kiril Todorov suspended from COM Executive Committee

    Mar 9, 2016

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    rokur
    in Organization

    Mexican Swimming Federation President Kiril Todorov has been indefinitely suspended from his position as a Board member of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM) as a row over their participation at Rio 2016 intensifies.

    The national body was “temporarily suspended” by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) earlier this year after they “broke contractual obligations” by withdrawing last February as host of the 2017 FINA World Championships.

    They will be unable to compete under their own flag at Rio 2016 unless the ban is lifted in time.

    The Federation were also hit with a $5 million (ยฃ3.5 million/โ‚ฌ4.5 million) fine, which they are currently refusing the pay amid an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

    This resulted in Todorov resigning from his position as as vice-president of the FINA Technical Committee last month.

    He has now accused the COM of a lack of solidarity in supporting his plight.

    (Todorov speaking about Waterpolo back in 2014)

    Mexican Swimming Federation President Kiril Todorov Interview | FINA World Water Polo Conference

  • Freediving Bonaire – 2016

    Mar 8, 2016

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    rokur
    in Freediving

    Freediving trip in Bonaire with my dive buddy Clement.

  • Flying Underwater! – Subwing in 4K

    Mar 8, 2016

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    rokur
    in Equipment

    To find out more information on Subwing check them out at their website:
    http://www.subwing.com

  • Michael Phelps Returns for One Last Swim in Under Armour’s Haunting New Ad

    Mar 8, 2016

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    rokur
    in Equipment

    Michael Phelps has been an Under Armour endorser since 2010, but of course, he’s only truly in the spotlight quadrennially, during the Olympics. Now 30 years old, the world’s greatest-ever swimmer is making one final Olympic pushโ€”for the Rio Games this August.

    Under Armour is celebrating its hero’s last stand with a beautiful and brooding ad from Droga5 that focuses on Phelps’s intense training regimenโ€”in other words, everything he’s been doing while outside the spotlight to prepare for those precious moments in the pool.

    See Adweek

    https://youtu.be/Xh9jAD1ofm4

  • Video Wonder: Underwater Rugby

    Mar 8, 2016

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    rokur
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    Ever watch a rugby game and think, “This is quite entertaining, but I wish things were wetter and more chaotic”? Underwater rugby is for you.

    See Atlas Obscura

  • Dwarf Minke Whales Make Star Wars Blaster Noises Underwater

    Mar 8, 2016

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    rokur
    in Nature

    It looks like the lyre bird and its futuristic laser soundsย might finally have a challenger: the dwarf minke whale. These lesser-known leviathans might not have vocal chords, but they somehow manage to produce a blaster-likeย “da-da-da-daaaang”, aptlyย known as the “Star Warsย sound”.

    See Earth Touch News

    Whale sounds like a lightsaber #GreatBarrierReef

    Listen to the first ever recording of a dwarf minke whale… they sound like lightsabers!Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough starts 30 December on BBC One

    Posted by BBC Earth on Friday, December 18, 2015

    minke vocalization

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