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Olympic organizers invite Keith Moon (1946-1978) to perform at the 2012 Games

Apr 17, 2012

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rokur

in WTF

According to the manager for The Who, officials of the 2012 Olympics in London recently approached him to see if Keith Moon “would be available” to play with the surviving members this summer. Problem just that Moon died from an overdose back in 1978.

“I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who’s anthemic line ‘I hope I die before I get old’,” came the excellent reply.

“If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him.”

Read The Guardian via Neatorama.

Obviously going into the WTF-category, RIP Keith Moon.
Ian Thorpe splits from longtime manager David Flaskas

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip

According to The Daily Telegraph, Ian Thorpe has split from his former manager David Flaskas to join James Erskine at SEL, shocking many in Australian swimming considering Flaskas has been with Thorpe since the outset. “The fact Thorpe is Australia’s most decorated Olympian should have set him up for life. But he’s far from it, and that is why he has turned to Erskine.” Via OpposingViews

Ian Thorpe, photo courtesy of mtlin, cc by-nc-nd
CC photo #108: Beautiful trees behind the Roma 2009 spectator stands

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

Just a shot of the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships swimming pool spectator stands, taken mainly because of those beautiful trees in the background. Jeez, everything is special when you come from the cold and windy north, including trees :-)
Eindhoven Swim Cup: Kromowidjojo sets another textile best

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Competition

So yesterday at the Eindhoven Swim Cup, the Netherland’s Ranomi Kromowidjojo blazed the women’s 50 meter freestyle with a world textile best of 24.10. Brazil’s Bruno Fratus managed an impressive 21.87 in the men’s event, read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine, and see all results here.
Anthony Ervin talks to kids at diversity clinic

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Organization, Training

2000 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Ervin visited the Ossining Aquatics Center on Sunday to speak to about 100 aspiring swimmers on the Spartans Swim Team at Metropolitan Swimming’s diversity clinic. Read lohud.com
Wow, beautiful all-red spectator stand in tribute to 11-year-old cancer victim

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Health, Organization, Wow

At the 10th annual Easter swim meet at Hutton Moor Leisure Center in Weston, UK, yesterday, hundreds of swimmers and supporters came together in red in tribute of 11-year-old Mary Collard, keen member of the Weston Swimming Club, who lost her battle against bone cancer on New Year’s Day. Read more here on Mercury24
What makes a swimming pool fast ?

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Swimming Pools, Technology

Interesting story here on The Brown Daily Herald, with Brown Bears’ head coach Peter Brown describing what makes the new Katherine Moran Coleman Center swimming pool the fastest aquatic center in the Ivy League and in the Northeast.

(Ehm, vaguely related video)

â€œFast pools have specific characteristics, and if you donâ€™t have those, youâ€™re going to have a slow pool,â€ Peter Brown said.

The first quality is the poolâ€™s depth. In general, â€œthe deeper the water, the better,â€ Peter Brown said. Menâ€™s swimming captain James Hunter â€™12 said the nine feet of depth reduce swimmersâ€™ waves from bouncing off the bottom of the pool, which reduces turbulence in the water.

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Sorry about the slow day yesterday

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Swimmer’s Daily

We had our younger daughter Annika’s confirmation in a house without internet, which was just as well with all the things going on in swimming at the moment. Slowly getting back into speed, and already this Thursday, we’ll have this big thing here in the Faroes called the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. Now cake, leftovers, for the third time today :-P

(This is not swimming blogging, but me creating some last-minute photo slide show, at the party. Intensity pretty much the same, though)
Moving into a nice neighborhood :-)

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Swimmer’s Daily, Wow

Last week this site was included in the new Swimming World RSS feed aggregator entitled “Swimming Around the World, Posts from the Swimming Community”, right on the home page of SwimmingWorld.com. Pretty humbled here, especially when seeing we’re mentioned among great sites like GoSwim, SwimNews, Texas Swimming, SCAQ Blog and Speed Endurance Swimming.