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  • CC photo #303: The Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE)

    Oct 28, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    The Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE), venue of the annual FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany.

    The Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE)

  • Gold Coast Seaway – Save Our Spit

    Oct 28, 2012

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    rokur
    in Nature, Open Water, Wow

    See www.facebook.com/SaveOurSpit

  • Effortless Swimming’s Head Coach Brenton Ford Reveals the Main Reasons Swimmers Have a Bad Session

    Oct 28, 2012

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    rokur
    in Training

    In the latest video offering from Effortless Swimming, Head Coach Brenton Ford explains that one of the main reasons swimmers have a bad training session, besides sickness and fatigue, is due to inflexibility. See PR Web.

  • Former Olympic champion Manaudou to quit again

    Oct 28, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition, Gossip

    French swimmer Laure Manaudou, the Olympic 400m freestyle champion at the 2004 Athens Games, will retire for a second time after next month’s European Championships, the Le Courrier Picard newspaper reported. Via the Bangkok Post

    Laure Manaudou exits the Rijeka 2008 pool

  • CC photo #302: World Cup poster outside the Europa Sports Park Berlin

    Oct 27, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    Nice and big, the advertisement for the FINA / Arena Swimming World Cup 2012 in Berlin, Germany, outside the Berliner Bäder-Betriebe: Europa-Sportpark (SSE).

    World Cup poster outside the Europa Sports Park Berlin

  • Three candidates for the 2019 and 2021 FINA World Championships

    Oct 27, 2012

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    rokur
    in Organization

    FINA announces today that the national federations of China, Japan and Korea have expressed their intention to be involved in the bid process for the organisation of the 2019 FINA World Championships, and eventually for the 2021 edition, the specific cities to be confirmed later. Before 2019 and 2021, the 15th FINA World Championships will take place in Barcelona (ESP) from July 19-August 4, 2013, while the 16th and 17th edition will take place respectively in Kazan (RUS) in 2015 and Guadalajara (MEX) in 2017.

  • TODAY trains With Natalie Coughlin

    Oct 27, 2012

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    rokur
    in Dryland, Training

    The video on NBC is restricted to users in the United States and U.S. Territories, but there is this short glimpse of the action on YouTube with a somewhat more seedy description: “Natalie Morales & Natalie Coughlin working out in tight spandex shorts.”

  • Nathan Adrian voting reminder: Be an Informed Voter!

    Oct 27, 2012

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    rokur
    in Organization

    Olympic Champion Nathan Adrian reminding voters to return their ballots early and not to wait until the last minute.

  • Michael Phelps is not so good at crowd-surfing

    Oct 26, 2012

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    rokur
    in Gossip

    Michael Phelps decided to do a little crowd-surfing at XS, a Vegas club, this week, and as the video below shows, it didn’t end so well. I blame the crowd. See TMZ via Yahoo! Sports

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