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55-year-old Mexican tries to swim to the U.S. with 50 pounds of pot

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, WTF

See UT San Diego

A man accused of trying to swim to the U.S. from Mexico with more than 50 pounds of marijuana was arrested, federal officials said Monday.

About 11 p.m. Thursday, Border Patrol agents responded to a report of a man swimming about a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection statement.

The man, who had a duffle bag, was about 600 yards off the coast.

Agents found seven bundles of wrapped marijuana in the bag. The street value of the drug was estimated at more than $23,000, the CBP said.
CC photo #633: RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki at Debrecen 2012

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

A photo from the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. Poland’s RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki posing with his 200 meter backstroke gold medal, see the result list here.
The Herning 2013 mascot named Harald Bluetooth

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Fun, Organization

Breaking news off Facebook

Post by EM i svÃ¸mning 2013.
Meet Japan’s badass, elderly freediving women

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Freediving

Via BreitbartÂ – “In Japan, elderly women freedive every day to collect shellfish, a fishing tradition that is struggling to hook the next generation.”

See also Tokyo Times: “Women diving into the ocean to pick abalones are known in Japan as â€œamasâ€ or â€œsea womenâ€. Ladies diving into waters of up to 20 meters deep have become one of Japanâ€™s trademarks, despite the fact that many of the â€˜amasâ€™ have lost their lives throughout the years due to the risky diving that is made just by wearing a simple mask.”

Video autoplays, therefore put below the break (more…)
Becoming Men – Short film about the Grand Canal freestyle diving kids

Sep 25, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Wow

“During a long hot summer in inner city Dublin, a man looks back on his own youth. Things haven’t changed much.”

via The Irish Times, thanks John!

Becoming Men from Motherland on Vimeo.
CC photo #632: Them shoes again

Sep 24, 2013

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

Proud teddy bears on top of the medal podium at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. This after the men’s 200 meter backstroke, result list here.
Training Katie Ledecky for World Championships, by Bruce Gemmell, Part 1 (2013)

Sep 24, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Organization, Training

“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3
Visually impaired student trains for long distance swim

Sep 24, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Wow

Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma

Sep 23, 2013

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rokur

in Health

Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dk

European Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. She has communicated with her family, but is still very groggy because of the medication. Danish national coach Michael KrÃ¼ger says that the doctors have now started the recovery phase, which can vary from a few days to a few weeks, where after a long and hard rehabilitation period awaits.