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  • Early London 2012 arrivers treated with a 4-hour Tour of the City

    Jul 17, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, Wow, WTF

    Interesting story off The Telegraph, via GoSwim on Twitter

    Competitors from Australia and the United States were on buses that took almost four hours to get from Heathrow Airport to the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, despite being able to use a newly-opened Games lane on the M4. It should take less than an hour.

    The driver of the Australians’ bus admitted that he had never driven the route before and did not know how to work the vehicle’s satellite navigation.

    As a result, he gave his passengers a roundabout tour of the capital, taking in Buckingham Palace and West Ham, until one Australian provided directions from a map on his mobile phone.

    For some weird reason, the Brits have already made a documentary about this :-P

  • CC photo #199: Prime Minister Kaj Leo Johannesen examines Pál’s Budapest 2010 silver medal

    Jul 17, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands

    The Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands examining the 1500 meter freestyle silver medal that Pál Joensen won in Budapest, at a private reception in Tinganes. Kaj Leo Johannesen is a local sports celebrity himself, part of the national soccer team that won over Austria back in 1990 (the year when Pál was born, coincidentally :-)

    Kaj Leo granskar EM silvurið

  • A nice shot from the Rijeka Camp last week

    Jul 17, 2012

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    rokur
    in Training, Wow

    Pál Joensen and Oussama Mellouli racing to the finish during a training set in Croatia last week while the Danes were back for their national championships. Coach Bjarnason on deck :-)

    Pál og Ous í Rijeka

    (Pál is the one in black trunks, Ous in the white)

  • Olympico Promo

    Jul 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Competition, Fun

    The team from Olympico spare no expense

    Apparently they are hilarious

  • USA Swimming and Disney-Pixar say “Just Keep Swimming”

    Jul 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Organization

    To get more involved in swimming visit swimtoday.org

    (Btw, spot the Brit)

  • AT&T Commercial – “Warming Up” – featuring Ryan Lochte

    Jul 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    “Warming Up” is AT&T’s Olympic brand/anthem spot featuring Ryan Lochte, epically swimming across the Atlantic as a metaphor for all that Team USA athletes have to do to get to the Olympic Games.

  • Jacques Cousteau: ‘The most creative and imaginative person I’ve ever met’

    Jul 17, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Open Water, Technology

    Jacques Cousteau practically invented scuba diving when he developed the regulator valve that made possible breathing air from tanks underwater. “I remember most that he was enchanted with ideas … He was almost like a little child, but he was the most creative and imaginative person I’ve ever met,” says Susan Schiefelbein, a close collaborator with Cousteau for more than two decades who also helped him write his autobiography. Read more here on CNN

  • Behold the 28th Annual Lower Keys Underwater Music Festival

    Jul 17, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun, Open Water

    Yup, 28 years straight, I guess, about 300 divers and snorkelers listened to music beneath the sea Saturday in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, while exploring a portion of continental United States’ only living contiguous coral barrier reef. See Lower Keys Chamber and (with really nice pictures) theVsky, via Today’s THV.

  • CC photo #198: Faroese youngsters ready for the 1500

    Jul 16, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands

    I think they are Óli Mortensen (Havnar Svimjifelag) on lane 3, Eyðbjørn Joensen (Suðuroyar Svimjifelag) on lane 4 and then Alvi Hjelm (Ægir) on lane 5. All born in 1994, here at a meet in Klaksvík in February 2012, where Óli Mortensen in this race won himself the Faroese Swimming Association ‘gold pin’ for swimming 1500 freestyle in 15:53.39 (short course).

    Faroese youngsters ready for the 1500

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