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Should Ice Swimming Be In The Olympics?

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water

A good question here on Open Water Swimming

One of the most fascinating topics at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California was the discussion on how to get ice swimming into the Winter Olympics.

Those discussions will undoubtedly continue at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland. In addition to the Summer Olympics goal of athletes to go higher, faster, stronger, many events of the Winter Olympics have a high element of daredevil feats and inherent risk.

Image courtesy of Patrick Breen, CC BY 2.0
Learn to be a mermaid thanks to new school in the Philippines

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Fun, Organization, WTF

“The Philippine Mermaid Swimming Academy is a dream come true for girls who want to become mermaids. The new school was started this year in Manilla.”

http://youtu.be/Wsw7oL6reXA
How to empty a portable swimming pool in 1 sec

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Fun

That can’t be safe

http://youtu.be/wzfS3r_c-Bg
Fijian Douglas Miller – Passion for the Pool – Insight from 2013 World Swimming Championships

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Competition

“This film was produced by Alice McAlpine and crew of The Reporters’ Academy UK, a media production company run by young people, tasked with the mission of telling the stories of Oceania’s swimmers at the World Championships in Barcelona. The Reporters’ Academy is integrated into the world of media, education and employment, based in the great sporting city of Manchester.”

Fijian Douglas Miller – Passion for the Pool – Insight from 2013 World Swimming Championships
Speedo Advisors | How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Health, Training

“How to tone your entire body using swim fitness by Karen Pickering”
Catherine Vogt on Training Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water

“Catherine Vogt, the head open water coach for the United States at the 2013 world championships, talks about training world champions Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli.”

Catherine Vogt on Training Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli
David Walliams dives in to SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace

Sep 18, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Organization

“David Walliams waded in for his latest swim challenge joining hundreds of eager swimmers from around the country to take on British Gas SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace’s Great Lake. The comic actor joined forces with a host of Olympic and Paralympic swim stars including Keri-anne Payne, Duncan Goodhew, Cassie Patten and Graham Edmunds to encourage the nation to get back in the water this summer.”

David Walliams dives in to SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace
12-year-old Hong Kong swim champ regains consciousness after near drowning

Sep 17, 2013

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rokur

in Competition, Health, Safety

Read South China Morning Post

A young swimming champion has regained consciousness after nearly drowning at an annual North District swimming competition on Sunday where he had just set a new record.

But he is still partly paralysed, school authorities say. […]

After setting a new record in the competition’s 200-metre breaststroke, winning the 4×50-metre relay and reaching the final of the 50-metre butterfly, Yau leapt into a training pool to warm up for the 100-metre breaststroke and lost consciousness in the water.

He was listed as still being in a critical condition in the intensive care unit last night.
Tudor Morris to swim the English Channel this September, behold his beautiful video

Sep 17, 2013

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rokur

in Open Water, Wow

See Virgin Money Giving

My name is Tudor Morris and when I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the immune system and lymphatic glands where white blood cells are produced. By the time I started treatment the cancer had spread and I had tumors on both sides of my neck, and more alarmingly, close to my heart and lungs. […]

That 8 years ago now, and luckily I am now cancer free having beaten the disease that my mother sadly succumbed to all those years ago. Momentum has changed vastly since then – when I was at Kingston, it was a very small charity, but with generous donations from the public it has grown.

Naturally, I wanted to give something back to Momentum – for what they did for me, and the massive amount of support that they continue to give today.

I’ve decided I’ll be swimming from England to France in September 2013.

Watch his video 5044141 on YouTube, it is beautiful and touching and explaining English Channel rules and everything.

And donate here

http://youtu.be/hQHj7pj-o5g

Look’s like he is ready to go

my last 6hr session before my cross channel attempt @HamptonPool today… been a blast

— Tudor Morris (@tudormorris) September 14, 2013

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Rókur í Jákupsstovu // 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 :-)