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  • The Steroid-Dealing, Ecstasy-Smuggling, Dead-Body-Burning Swim Coach

    Nov 4, 2011

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    rokur
    in Gossip, Organization, Safety

    … that parents still want to coach their children. Wild story!

    I was told to tread carefully. I was told that the man in the headline above could be litigious, and that he had deep pockets. There’s also the matter of him burning and burying a dead body on his own property… During the trial when this dark detail emerged, an attorney said of this coach: “If he has a conscience, it would be a very hard thing to find.” Fair warning. Careful what you write. I’ll just tread in the facts.

    Read more here on Cap & Goggles

  • Michael Phelps used to be scared to put his head in the water

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in History, Safety

    There you go, anything is possible: “I started swimming at seven. The first couple of years I was afraid of putting my face in the water. I just wasn’t comfortable. Eventually I just put it in and off I went.” Via 2012olympicsblog.co.uk

  • USA announces its 2011 Duel in the Pool roster

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition

    USA Swimming is lining up a lot of its very best swimmers, to compete against an European All-Star team at the 2011 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool on December 16-17. For instance Amanda Beard, Natalie Coughlin, Missy Franklin, Jessica Hardy, Dana Vollmer and Kate Ziegler, and Tyler Clary, Mark Gangloff, Brendan Hansen, Ryan Lochte, Eric Shanteau and Garrett Weber-Gale. Faroese interest falls especially on Peter Vanderkaay, since he and Pál Joensen swim pretty much the same events, with Pál beating Vanderkaay in the 800 and 1500 at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, and Vanderkaay doing the vice versa in Dubai 2010. See the USA roster here.

  • Penny Palfrey takes on the Cuba to Florida challenge

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    If I’m not mistaken, we have a race on our hands, with Diana Nyad continuing to chase her ‘Xtreme dream’ to swim from Cuba to Florida, and now also Penny Palfrey planning to swim from Cuba to Florida in June 2012. Palfrey has the world record for the longest solo unassisted ocean swim without a shark cage, from when she swam from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman in June this year, which these 103 miles to Key West will break. Via loneswimmer.com.

  • Cadbury Dairy Milk presents Simply the Best

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun

    Featuring Rebecca Adlington, an opera singing Royal Guard, a sausage seller and others, almost all of them underwater. Mmm, Cadbury, via shootonline.com.

  • Swimming prohibited only in swimming area ?

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Fun, Swimming Pools

    And prohibited during swimming hours, see rule No. 3. Sign found in Okinawa, Japan, picture courtesy of Daam Nillan, via Engrish.com.

  • Open Water Swimming testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Equipment, Technique

    Mike Lewis from OpenWaterSwimming.com testing the FINIS Ankle Strap Cord, an adaption of the classic hip belt.

  • 2011 RCP Tiburon Mile – Highlights

    Nov 3, 2011

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Courtesy of Gold Medal Mel and FINIS.

  • Introducing Swim Kids lessons with Grant Hackett and Eamon Sullivan

    Nov 2, 2011

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    by

    rokur
    in Fun, Safety

    Wow, Uncle Toby’s isn’t just oatmeal and fumbling sprinters, presenting 6 video lessons with Grant Hackett & Eamon Sullivan. See www.swimkids.com.au

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