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Yippee, my first story in Bulgarian media

Jan 29, 2012

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rokur

in Faroe Islands, Organization, Swimmer’s Daily

So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put it here on bgswim.info. It is mostly about how tiny we are; you could have it autotranslated by Google, but for comfort I’ll put my summary of Faroese swimming here in English after the break. I’ve probably stepped on a few toes back home with this text, but there you go.

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CC photo #30: Pál with his Åland 2009 medals

Jan 29, 2012

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rokur

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

The Faroe Islands won most medals at the Åland 2009 NatWest Island Games, in swimming the second time in a row, and for all sports the first time ever. The Faroe Islands won a total of 34 gold medals, 23 silver and 24 bronze medals in the 14 different sports, whereof the swimmers won 21 gold, 11 silver and 11 bronze. Pál won gold in all 5 freestyle events, in the 50 butterfly and 200 breaststroke, silver in the 50 breaststroke, 100, 200 and 400 IM, and bronze in the 100 breaststroke and 200 butterfly. And was part of the relays winning gold in the 4×50 medley, and silver in the 4×100 medley and 4×100 freestyle. A total of 8 gold medals, 6 silver and 2 bronze. See result lists here.
Sarah Sjöström sets 2 Swedish senior records at Junior SC Nationals

Jan 29, 2012

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rokur

in Competition

After breaking the Swedish 200 IM short course senior record at the junior nationals on Friday with a 2:08.17, she yesterday cleared also Therese Alshammar’s 12-year-old record of 52.17 in the 100 freestyle, with a 52.15, ahead of Michelle Coleman in 52.96 and 15-year-old Louise Hansson in 53.73. Via SwimNews

Videos from the Swedish Junior Nationals can be seen here on LiveTiming.se, the 200 IM is “Gren 14 Final” at the bottom of the list in “Pass 4” and the 100 freestyle “JSM gren 27 A final” in “Pass 6”
“Back to the cap” – freediving in Reunion Islands

Jan 29, 2012

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rokur

in Freediving

Someone has been using the ‘Documentary’ Movie Trailer theme in iMovie. But it works, and that fish school is just amazing.

“BACK TO THE CAP” – Freediving in Reunion Island from Farouck Moullan on Vimeo.
Freediver Patrick Musimu

Jan 29, 2012

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rokur

in Freediving

In June 2005, Patrick Musimu redefined human boundaries and became the first freediver to reach a depth below 200 meters (218 yards, 656 feet). Great pro-quality video here featuring him investigating the ancient freediving techniqe of the sponge fishermen on the island of Kalymnos in Greece, where they used a special (heavy) stone called a skandalopetra to dive head-first into the depths with, comparing it to how in the Persian gulf Emirati divers also used a stone or weight made of iron to dive (feet-first).

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Sorry about the site being so slow these days

Jan 28, 2012

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rokur

in Swimmer’s Daily

It was running fine with way heavier traffic two weeks ago, and then it went to a crawl this week. I contacted my web host when it died totally on Friday, it came up again, and now, well, now we’ll just see if it ever gets up to speed again. If not, then it is easy to move to another host.

Image courtesy of chrisinplymouth, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
The Night Swimmer – a book review

Jan 28, 2012

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rokur

in Open Water, Review

I received a free copy of “The Night Swimmer” by Matt Bondurant this Christmas, promising in return to write a book review about it. Didn’t realize how hectic life would be here in January – but well, managed to read it eventually, quite not-stop even, because it turned out to be good!

And now I’ll try to do this other thing :-)

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Natalie Coughlin named ambassador of Pantene

Jan 28, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip

Pantene has named Olympic medalist swimmer Natalie Coughlin as the brand’s new ambassador, chosen not only for her vast accomplishments in sports, but also for her dedication to a healthy lifestyle and her ability to inspire women to embrace their own strenth and feminity. She will appear in all elements of the brand’s marketing campaign, including TV and print advertising, in-store displays, digital and social media and a PR campaign beginning in June 2012. Via Marketwatch.

Here is a behind the scenes video of the Pantene and Natalie Coughlin campaign
16-year-old Carlos Hunnicutt ‘best in 20 years’ according to his coach

Jan 28, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Training

Nice feature here on KVAL.com, about Carlos Hunnicutt from Springfield, Oregon, who despite of being only a 16-year-old sophomore has won the 100 butterfly state championships, now aiming for the U.S. Olympics trials and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

“He’s willing to get up early and work hard,” said Springfield swim coach Josh Jordan. “He’s one of the best swimmers I’ve ever seen in the past 20 years.”

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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 :-)