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See all FINA 2012 World Cup final sessions LIVE on FINA TV and your iPhone/iPad

Sep 30, 2012

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rokur

in Competition
Great news for especially iOS users, all 16 FINA / Arena 2012 World Cup final sessions will be streamed live on FINA TV, starting with the Dubai leg on Tuesday 2 October and ending in Singapore on Sunday 11 November, available also on your iPhone/iPad by using the free Live+ app from Digotel, with live timing service on Omega Timing. The schedule warns that ‘geographic restrictions may apply due to broadcasting rights’, and they’ll probably again this year delay the sessions until after the 800/1500, but it is sure better than nothing :-)

I’m working on preparing our LIVE page with all relevant links

The FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2012 will take place in the following cities:
- 2-3 Oct 2012 – Dubai (UAE)
- 6-7 Oct 2012 – Doha (QAT)
- 13-14 Oct 2012 – Stockholm (SWE)
- 17-18 Oct 2012 – Moscow (RUS)
- 20-21 Oct 2012 – Berlin (GER)
- 2-3 Nov 2012 – Beijing (CHN)
- 6-7 Nov 2012 – Tokyo (JPN)
- 10-11 Nov 2012 – Singapore (SIN)
Barry Murphy – Living for London – 2012 Pre-Olympic Games Documentary

Sep 30, 2012

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rokur

in Competition

“Follow Barry Murphy (Irish swimmer) on his journey to the London Olympic Games. The documentary follows Barry from Dublin to the US as he prepares for the worlds premier sporting event.”

Via Alex Hetland on Facebook

http://youtu.be/v6yF_a2gis4
Sebastien Murat explains exhale freediving

Sep 30, 2012

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rokur

in Freediving

“Sebastien Murat experimented a lot with freediving on empty lungs. You could call him a pioneer on this method of freediving. But see for yourself ….”
Kiteboarding a Salt Island

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in Wow

“You’ve seen kiteboarding. You’ve seen snowboarding. But what about saltboarding?”

Via YouTube on Google+

Kiteboarding a Salt Island
Bait 3D Trailer

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in Fun

“A group of people who get trapped in a Supermarket after a Tsunami hits the coast of Queensland, Australia. But they soon find out that they have more to worry about than being in a flooded grocery store, there’s a 12 foot shark swimming around them, and it’s hungry.”

Bait 3D Trailer from Conor Coyle on Vimeo.
CC photo #275: Boxen, venue of the Herning 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

Breaking news from my good friend Jesper Harder at Herning Svømmeklub, LEN has awarded Denmark and the Danish city of Herning the 2013 European Short Course Swimming Championships, to be held in the Jyske Bank Boxen multiarena. Here is a photo of ‘The Box’, taken when Jesper drove me from Holstebro til Billund Airport after the 2012 Aqua Clinic. I’ll post it as tomorrow’s CC photo already today :-)

See also the official press release from the Danish Swimming Federation (in Danish)

(Boxen, CC BY 2.0 – use the photo as you wish, as long as you attribute :-)
Red Bull 400: The hardest 400m Run in Europe

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in Dryland, Wow

On a beautiful and sunny Saturday, 164 runners from 9 countries competed against each other trying to conquer the famous ski jump in Planica. The hardest 400 m run was won by the Turk Arslan Ahmet in the men category (5:02:53), and by the Austrian Teresa Stadlober in the women category (6:46:44).

– I’m pretty sure you can hit max HR, running up that hill :-S
CC photo #274: Philippe Lucas at Rijeka 2008

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

The ‘nomadic’ French coach Philippe Lucas at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Swimming Championships, a year after his split with long-time protegé Laure Manaudou. If I remember correctly, here at Rijeka 2008 coaching Romania’s Camelia Potec. As of September 2008, he is now again coaching Italy’s Federica Pellegrini, along with Amaury Leveaux and others at Narbonne, see for instance SwimNews.
Paolo Barelli replaces Nory Kruchten as LEN president

Sep 29, 2012

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rokur

in Organization

Breaking news from our friend Bjørn Soleng live tweeting (or facebooking) the 2012 LEN Congress, Italy’s Mr Paolo Barelli replaces Mr Nory Kruchten from Luxembourg as president of the European Swimming Federation, Sweden’s Sven von Holst has been elected as one of five vice presidents, and Norway’s Per Rune Eknes is new member of the board.

See official press release here, also elected vice president is Germany’s Dr. Christa Thiel, and in her place new Treasurer Tamas Gyarfas from Hungary. New General Secreaty is GBR’s David Sparkes, replacing retired Sven Egil Folvik from Norway, and among the newly elected members of the LEN Bureau Russia’s Vladimir Salnikov and Serbia’s Aleksandar Sostar.

(Photo: Bjørn Soleng)

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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 :-)