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  • CC photo #508: Opening ceremony at Debrecen 2012

    May 22, 2013

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    Just a photo from the opening ceremony at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

    Opening ceremony at Debrecen 2012

  • You Can Swim – Dr. Murray taking a swimming lesson at Stirling

    May 22, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Technique, Training

    Scottish Commonwealth Games hopeful Kerry Buchan teaches Dr. Andrew Murray, who is trying out every Commonwealth Games sport, the basics of swimming at the National Swimming Academy in Stirling. You Can Swim runs from 20 May – 30 June in a pool near you in Scotland. For more info look at www.scottishswimming.com/youcanswim

  • Grinnell College Swim Team Show Choir

    May 22, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    Screen Shot 2013-05-22 at 10.55.36 PM“One more of their plethora of talents”

  • Google I/O 2013 – Dive Into Underwater Street View

    May 22, 2013

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    rokur
    in Nature, Science, Technology, Wow

    catlin-seaview-svii30+ minutes of geekdom, bear with me

    Google and Catlin Seaview Survey‘s Richard Vevers have partnered together to bring the first ever underwater street view imagery to Google Maps. Learn how Catlin Seaview Survey has built a special camera to collect this spectacular surround imagery.

  • TV Ad: Dara Torres, Knee Surgery, Cartilage Regeneration

    May 21, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health, Science

    When five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres found that knee osteoarthritis was keeping her out of the pool and unable to play with her young daughter, Torres chose Brigham and Women’s Hospital for an autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), or cartilage regeneration, which takes a patient’s own healthy cartilage to repair unhealthy cartilage. BWH is one of the few hospitals in the world to offer this procedure.

  • South African swimmer Zandberg hungry for success

    May 21, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition

    A little later this year, the world swimming championships takes place in Spain with South African’s Cameron van der Burgh and Chad le Clos hoping to build on their Olympic success. But as those two were celebrating gold in London, another swimmer from the Republic was in tears and faced an uncertain future.

  • YMCA Teaches Minority City Kids to Swim to Stop Drownings

    May 21, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Safety

    The president of the YMCA of Greater Boston talks about the organization’s urban swimming program, which teaches poor black and latino kids how to swim to keep them from drowning. Kevin Washington, who learned to swim at the

  • David Letterman – Will Smith Can’t Swim

    May 21, 2013

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Will Smith at the 2011 Walmart Shareholders MeetingWill opens up to Dave about his biggest weakness

    http://youtu.be/BIVJQ7OHJTo

    Image courtesy of Walmart, CC BY 2.0

  • CC photo #507: Photo of a photo being taken at Istanbul 2012

    May 21, 2013

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    Two swimmers having their photo taken by the poolside at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.

    Photo of a photo being taken at Istanbul 2012

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