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  • Buzzfeed Sports interviewing Natalie Coughlin

    Jul 14, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Read Buzzfeed Sports

    The Olympics are one of the most exhausting, overwhelming, exciting, crazy experiences you could possibly imagine. There’s a reason I took over a year off after the last one [laughs] — they are draining. There’s so much pressure, so much excitement, and you’re physically exhausted from competition, but there’s just all this craziness around you, and it is draining. Fortunately, I’ve been on that world stage for many years and I know exactly what to expect in London, so I have a gameplan now, but they’re pretty insane.

  • How not to jump off a dock

    Jul 14, 2012

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    rokur
    in Fun, Safety, Wow

    Via The Daily What

  • Ehm, the Olympic beds are only 172 cm long (5 feet 8)

    Jul 13, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition, Organization, WTF

    The London 2012 Olympic Village is now officially open for business, looks okay but the beds are tiny by most standards, some of us would call them ‘kid’s size’. They have arrangement for longer beds for ‘extra long beds’ for basketball players, rowers and the like … but really, 172 cm ?!? Read for instance Business Insider, Yahoo! Sport, Gulf News.

  • CC photo #195: Pál being interviewed by Swedish media at Budapest 2010

    Jul 13, 2012

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

    Pál Joensen being interviewed by the Swedish national broadcasting company SVT at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships.

    Pál being interviewed by Swedish media at Budapest 2010

  • Wow, poor manatee out of control

    Jul 12, 2012

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Nature

  • Massachusetts man says Harvard swim coach sexually abused him

    Jul 12, 2012

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    rokur
    in Safety

    Stephen Embry, now 55 years old, says he is dealing with demons that have haunted him since he was 12. He says he was sexually molested by a university swimming coach, Benn Merit at a Harvard pool. Merit committed suicide in his Bilerica home in 1996, after another man, an older brother of one of Embry’s childhood friends, had filed a lawsuit alleging sexual assault at the same Harvard pool by Merit. Read NECN

  • How fast is a hundredth of a second?

    Jul 12, 2012

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    rokur
    in History, Wow

    Wow, via SCAQ Blog.

  • CC photo #194: Martina Granström on the Debrecen 2012 medal podium

    Jul 12, 2012

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    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

    Sweden’s Martina Granström on the medal podium at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Here from when she won bronze in the 200 butterfly on day 7, she also won a silver medal in the 100 butterfly on day 5.

    Martina Granström on the Debrecen 2012 medal podium

  • Expect rain to play big role at London 2012

    Jul 11, 2012

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    rokur
    in Competition, Nature

    Ahh, just like home for some of us ;-)

    Tennis fans have likely noticed how often the retractable roof has been closed at Wimbledon over the last two weeks. There have been frequent weather-related delays, and the Met office (The United Kingdom’s national weather forecaster) is predicting more of the same for the coming month.

    Rain isn’t exactly rare in London this time of year.

    The average August in London receives just under two inches of rain. London just set a record for the wettest June on record, and July is off to a wet start.

    Read the Bleacher Report

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