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  • Rebecca Adlington retires

    Feb 5, 2013

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Great Britain’s double Olympic swimming champion Rebecca Adlington has retired, the 23-year-old, who won the 800m world title in 2011 and two Commonwealth Games gold medals in 2010, picked up two bronze medals at London 2012.

    “I love swimming but as a competitive element and elite athlete I won’t compete any more,” she said.

    Read for instance BBC Sport and watch Sky Sports

    adlington-retires

  • Ryan Lochte and Olympic Swimmers on the Slopes

    Feb 5, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Dryland, Fun

    “Olympic medalists Ryan Lochte, Aaron Peirsol, Conor Dwyer, Ous Mellouli, and Arkady Vyatchanin take to the sloes of Breckenridge CO. Lochte’s and Arkady’s very first time on the frozen kind of water. Virtually Ous’ first time.”

    – Next stop Sochi !! :-P

  • Michael Phelps talks football

    Feb 5, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Gossip

    American football

  • Face-Off With a Deadly Predator

    Feb 5, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Nature, Wow

    Paul Nicklen describes his most amazing experience as a National Geographic photographer – coming face-to-face with one of Antarctica’s most vicious predators, the leopard seal.

  • Up close with SwimmerBuddy

    Feb 4, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Equipment, Open Water, Safety

    “Ever wonder how SwimmerBuddy looks up close and what you can mount on it? Jim Zinger CSP shows you how he uses his SwimmerBuddy. “I wanna encourage everybody to be safe be seen””

  • Practicing the dive

    Feb 4, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Technique

    http://youtu.be/JWKeTMCPTIQ

  • Mark Spitz going for gold in Munich 1972

    Feb 4, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Competition, History

    A trip down memory lane, including the moustache story

    http://youtu.be/QCeIo-Y_Ljc

  • California Girls – Trinity University Swimming

    Feb 4, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    “One camera, one swim team, and one travel trip to California. Trinity University Swimming presents their version of Katy Perry’s hit.”

    Vertical video alert … other than that, awesome! :-)

  • Winter Swimming in Toronto

    Feb 4, 2013

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Health, Open Water, Safety

    “A feature story I shot and edited for the Weather Network on the Toronto Winter Swimming Club.”

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