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  • The Euro 2013 hype is brewing in Herning

    Dec 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    Herning 2013 banners on the main street and buses

    Post by EM i svรธmning 2013.

    Post by EM i svรธmning 2013.
  • The Herning 2013 European pool part of a ‘green wave’

    Dec 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, Swimming Pools

    See svoem.dk (in Danish)

    ‘The European Short Course Championships are in every way a historic event in Denmark. The pools for the Championships are temporary and recycled from the London 2012 Olympics and the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona. After the European Championships, parts of the pools will once again be recycled – this time as an upgrade of the Herning swimming pool with a new 50 meter pool.’

    LEN EM i Kortbanesvรธmning

    Photo courtesy of Lars Mรธller / The Danish Swimming Federation

  • Nordic Junior / Pre-senior Championships Entry Lists Online

    Dec 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Faroe Islands

    The entry lists for the Nordic Junior & Pre-senior Championships are now online, see LiveTiming.se. Competition starts Friday morning, first team arrives tomorrow, and the weather forecast is (unchangingly) miserable.

    njc-2013_entry-lists

  • Zambia National Swimming Coach Proud of his Swimmers

    Dec 4, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition

    See MUVI TV

    Zambia National Swimming Coach Ian Stephenson says he is proud of his swimmers despite the countryโ€™s poor showing at the just ended All Africa Junior Swimming Championships.

    (Warning, the telephone conversation is really loud)

    MUVI TV SWIMMING RESULTS

  • CC photo #697: Still kicking

    Dec 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Faroe Islands, Fun, Training

    Now all together, a fun little competition – one length of kicking, all out – where each team has a noodle, and no one is allowed to let go of it. In this case hopelessly unfair, the big boys versus the small boys versus the girls. They still give it a go, though, the little ones.

    Still kicking

  • Fox News: YMCA swim class for Muslim girls proves Sharia law is โ€˜changing everythingโ€™

    Dec 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Training

    Read The Raw Story

    Fox News anchor Heather Nauert announced on Monday that a YMCA swim class that respected the religious traditions of Muslim girls was proof that โ€œSharia law is now changing everything.โ€

    The News Corpse calls it fear mongering.

  • GA swimming coach Dick Shoulberg takes leave of absence

    Dec 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Training

    dick-shoulbergRead Philly.com

    Germantown Academy’s revered swimming coach, Dick Shoulberg, is on leave because of “a personnel issue,” a school administrator said Monday.

    In an e-mail to parents last month, the school announced that assistant coach Claire Crippen would serve as acting director and acting head coach of the girls’ team in Shoulberg’s absence. Assistant coach Chris Lear will be acting head coach of the boys’ team, athletic director Jim Fenerty said.

    Head of School Jim Connor said he could not comment on Shoulberg’s leave but said he hoped it would be resolved “very soon.”

  • TV Midt Vest visits the Herning 2013 pool builders

    Dec 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    See tvmidtvest.dk, via SwimNews.dk

    ‘In Herning they are preparing for the European Short Course Championships, which means that Boxen (‘the Box’) is being transformed into a pool’

  • How two guys mapped all the pools in Los Angeles

    Dec 3, 2013

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    rokur
    in Swimming Pools, Technology, Wow

    Studio City - Back Yard and PoolRead Los Angeles Times

    “Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra.

    Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their project also proved that two non-experts were able to take a massive amount of freely available data to peek into other people’s lives. […]

    The LA Swimmer โ€” 43123 Pools I Have Not Visited and Never Will from Benedikt GroรŸ on Vimeo.

    The duo used eight publicly available databases, including latimes.com’s Mapping L.A., for the project. Other data sets used included the county’s parcel boundaries service, the Los Angeles County sheriff’s crime database, the assessor’s data set and a database that contained those donating money during the Proposition 8 campaign on gay marriage and the Megan’s Law list of registered child molesters.

    That’s why the “Big Atlas of L.A. Pools” came to include a map that shows where sex offenders with swimming pools live.

    “It seems that very few sex offenders live on property with pools,” the analysis concluded.

    The Big Atlas of LA Pools โ€“ #0 Process and Overview from Benedikt Groß on Vimeo.

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