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  • Behold LeBron James going for an open water swim

    Oct 30, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Open Water

    Is is a Nike ad, yes, but it is also LeBron James swimming :-)

    http://youtu.be/hmWMz10Ftko

  • CC photo #668: Warm-up pool at the Rijeka 2008 Europeans

    Oct 30, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Faroe Islands, Swimming Pools

    Just a photo from the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. We the Faroese were very impressed, as it was as big as one of our only three 25-meter pools in the country back home. Still is.

    Warm-up pool at the Rijeka 2008 Europeans

  • Functional evaluation during swimming w/ K4b2 and Aquatrainer at Laboratรณrio de Biomecรขnica do Porto

    Oct 30, 2013

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    rokur
    in Science, Training

    Source: Porto Biomechanics Laboratoryย http://www.labiomep.up.pt

  • Indiana Men’s Swimming Weight Room: Oct. 29, 2013

    Oct 30, 2013

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    rokur
    in Dryland, Training

    Strength and Conditioning Coach: Jason Robbins

  • Sea swimming helps English Channel swimmer Rob Starr with his Crohn’s disease

    Oct 30, 2013

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    rokur
    in Health, Open Water

    rob-starrRead Express

    When Rob Starr decided to swim the English Channel in memory of his father Edward, who had passed away from cancer, he knew he had set himself an enormous challenge.

    The 21-mile swim through the freezing waters of one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes would be enough to daunt even someone at the peak of physical fitness.

    However Rob had another hurdle to overcome – the 44-year-old businessman suffers from Crohn’s disease and assumed that the cold temperatures would exacerbate the crippling abdominal pains he regularly suffered. What he did not expect was that the icy seawater would actually relieve his agony.

  • Berlingske first major Danish newspaper to launch Swim section

    Oct 29, 2013

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    rokur
    in Organization, Wow

    As spotted by SwimNews.dk, Denmark’s oldest newspaper Berlingske has launched a dedicated swimming sports section, as the first of the “big three” broadsheet-quality national daily newspapers, the other two being Jyllands-Posten and Politiken. It is somewhat a surprise that Berlingske beat Politiken to this honor, as Politiken with journalist Allan Nielsen for many years has dominated in reports about swimming among Danish newspapers, although not with its own dedicated section.

    Screen Shot 2013-10-29 at 7.22.33 PM

  • CC photo #667: Olivia Smoliga on the Istanbul 2012 medal podium

    Oct 29, 2013

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    USA’s Olivia Smoliga world champion in the women’s 100 meter backstroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. In red Denmark’s silver winning Mie ร˜. Nielsen and in the bottom right corner bronze winner Simona Baumrtova from the Czech Republic. Also, hyperflexible elbow. See the result list here.

    Olivia Smoliga on the Istanbul 2012 medal podium

  • Herning 2013 en route to a new record of participation for European SC with 42 nations

    Oct 29, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization

    Read Politiken (in Danish)

    After a late registration from Azerbaijan, the number of registered participating countries for the LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships is now 42, which if all show up will mean that Herning 2013 will break the record of 41, held by the Istanbul 2009 Europeans. Albania, Andorra, Armenia, FYR Macedonia, Gibraltar, Malta, Monaco, Romania and San Marino are the 9 countries of LEN’s 51 member nations that haven’t registered for these European championships.

    Post by EM i svรธmning 2013.
  • Ziphius the app-controlled aquatic drone now available to pre-order

    Oct 29, 2013

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    rokur
    in Fun, Technology

    Ziphiusโ„ข, the first app-controlled aquatic drone, which won both the judgesโ€™ and readersโ€™ choice 1st place awards at this yearโ€™s Engadget Insert Coin Award competition and successfully reached its Kickstarter funding goal in July 2013, is now available for limited pre-order sales via its website:ย http://myziphius.com.

    Azorean, the company behind Ziphius, will officially be launching its online store for ZiphiusTM pre-orders during the Dublin Web Summit ongoing theย 30th & 31st of October 2013.

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Rรณkur รญ Jรกkupsstovu // Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT guy, spare-time aquatics aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 grandson & a wife. Bureau Member of European Aquatics, liaison to Water Safety, Media & Data Management. Likes to run :-)


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