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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.
Pál Joensen set 4 Faroese records this weekend

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Faroe Islands

Pál Joensen put of quite a performance this past weekend, attending a swim meet in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, where he participated in 11 individual events plus a few relays, won 10 of the individuals and set 4 Faroese national records. In the 200 butterfly (short course meters), he managed a time of 2:03.98, bettering his national record of 2:04.45 from last September. In the 200 IM he clocked 2:01.97, where his record from the supersuited 2009 was 2:04.41 In the 200 breaststroke he swam 2:15.56, where his record again from 2009 was 2:16.06, and in the 400 IM he managed an impressive time of 4:18.97, where his record from 2009 was 4:26.18. Not so shabby for a distance freestyler!

(Pál’s brother Eyðbjørn filmed this. The guy chasing and during backstroke overtaking Pál is our federation president’s son Bartal Hestoy, the big sigh from the spectators is because he just missed our qualification cut for the Debrecen Europeans with 7 tenths of a second).
30-year-old racer’s body found after ‘mud run’ in Forth Worth

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Organization, Safety

Friends and family say 30-year-old Tony Weathers was one of the most talented athletes they knew, and cannot understand how a man in such elite physical condition could die during Fort Worth’s “Original Mud Run” on Saturday. He was in the competitive division of the Mud Run, consisting of challenges including “Hole to Hades”, “Leap of Faith” and “Stairway to Heaven”, when in the middle of the race they swim across the Trinity River. Friends were waiting on a bridge but never saw him cross, his girlfriend at the finish line alerting organizers when he was hours late. At approximately 8:45 Sunday morning, they found him in the water. Read more here on KHOU
Mandaue-Mactan bridge jumper just ‘wanted to swim’

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Safety, WTF

Homocide charges have been filed against the 30-year-old man who jumped from the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge in the Philippines and fell on a swimmer below who died from the impact. At the Lapu-Lapu City Jail, the jumper said he wasn’t trying to commit suicide last Wednesday, but didn’t feel well and just wanted “to swim”. Read Inquirer News.

(Photo of Mactan-Mandaue bridge courtesy of Mike Gonzalez/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)
Four-time Olympic gold medal winner Murray Rose dies after cancer fight

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in History

Scotland-born Australian swimming great and four-time Olympic gold medalist Murray Ruse died in Sydney on Sunday aged 73 after a battle with leukemia. He won three golds at the 1956 Melbourne Games, becoming a national hero at 17, and then a wold, silver and bronze four years later in Rome, double gold in the 400 freestyle, gold and silver in the 1500 and then gold and bronze in the 4×200 freestyle. Read for instance Sports Illustrated, The Australian and SkyNews
Nivea branding Lotte Friis

Apr 16, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip

A Nivea ad spot, Lotte Friis giving advice (in Danish) about sun lotion. The swimming pool is Bellahøj SvømmestadionDanish National Training Center.
CC photo #107: Flags in the Rijeka 2008 competiton pool

Apr 15, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

A beautiful swimming pool, this Kantrida swimming complex in Rijeka, Croatia, here dressed for the 2008 European Short Course Championships.
CC photo #106: Overdressed medal presenter at a swim meet in Klaksvík

Apr 14, 2012

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rokur

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

Way back in January 2008, at a meet in Klaksvík, Faroe Islands, arranged by the local swim club, Ægir. The presenter is quite the prankster by now, member of our 1996-relay ;-)

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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 :-)