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Charlene and Prince Albert II already in trouble ?

Jul 11, 2011

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rokur

in Gossip

There are these rumors growing on the web, that Charlene tried to flee just before the wedding, because of claims popping up that Prince Albert II had fathered up to two more children to add to the two illegitimate ones he already has. Charlene is said to be desperate to find out if Prince Albert has been unfaithful to her, and now MailOnline writes about rumors that they don’t even stay in the same hotel during their honeymoon in South Africa. There is talk about the 700-year-old Grimaldi curse being placed on Albert’s ancestors. I don’t know.
Sometimes it is handy to be Tarzan

Jul 11, 2011

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rokur

in Fun, History

Funny story here on wbez.org, about Chicago swimming legend Johnny Weissmuller famous for being first man under the minute in 100 meter freestyle, and for his role as Tarzan in the 1930-ies and 1940-ies.

In 1958, years after his last movie, Weissmuller was at a golf outing in Cuba when his party was suddenly captured by rifle-toting rebels. Johnny smiled at them, then let loose his famous movie jungle-yell. The rebels stopped, smiled back, and began calling out “Tarzan! Tarzan!” Then theyÂ gave Johnny an armed escort back to his hotel.
Dutch swimming fan site “Mijn Zwemheld” is something else

Jul 11, 2011

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rokur

in Fun

I’m deeply impressed by this new Dutch swimming site called “Mijn Zwemheld” (“My Swimming Hero”), launched on Saturday 9 July during the send-off and departure of the Shanghai 2011 World Cup participants from the Netherlands. It is an online platform especially designed for social media, with profiles of currently 44 elite Dutch aquatic athletes, their best results, photos, tweets, upcoming competition schedule and more. YouTube videos, Facebook account, Flickr photos, you name it. In Dutch yes, but Google Chrome can translate on the fly :-)
Head Coach Job Opening at TÃ³rshavn’s Swim Club

Jul 11, 2011

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rokur

in Training

TÃ³rshavn Swim Club in the Faroe Islands is seeking a Head Coach, who will coach the elite teams and supervise the competitive sector of the club in whole ensuring that the coaching of all teams is consistent and applies to the overall philosophy of the club. See hs.fo.

Currently the competitive swimmers of the club compete in National, Nordic and European competitions with some of the swimmers highly ranked in their respective European age group. The swim club aims to be the best in the country, within a time frame of 2 years to have swimmers among the best in the Nordic countries and within 4 years among the best in Europes junior levels.

The job advertisement in whole can be downloaded here:Â Head Coach Job Opening
EMILY is your Android-controlled, life saving robot buoy

Jul 10, 2011

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rokur

in Safety, Technology

Hydronalix‘s robotic water rescue device E.M.I.L.Y. (Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard) is a remote control device that can travel at 40 miles per hour to rescue swimmers in distress. Using an Android phone or tablet, a lifeguard on the shore can send this buoy out to the rescue, and the distressed swimmer can then either let EMILY drag them back, or they can hang onto her and wait for a real person to finish the rescue. Smart! Via knoxnews.com.

Here is a video interview with Hydronalix founder Tony Mulligan, at the Google IO 2011. The thing has onboard camera, read sonar and everything, for you to watch and navigate with on a smartphone. They are planning on it to one day be able to auto-navigate to the distressed swimmer, and it is not even particularly expensive. Via thedroidguy.com.
Jellyfish on a rampage, shutting down nuclear plants in Japan and Israel too

Jul 10, 2011

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rokur

in Fun, Nature

We’ve heard about the Scotland incident, where a swarm of jellyfish forced a nuclear plant to shut down, because they swam into the seawater filters and blocked the cooling. Now SCAQ writes about the same stuff happening in Japan and Israel, I think it is an epidemy!
Faroe Islands and Iceland hitting the heat in Singapore

Jul 9, 2011

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rokur

in Training

An insightful video here from the joint Icelandic and Faroese training camp in Singapore, preparing for the Shanghai World Championships. A lot of the speak is in Faroese and Icelandic, but lucky for you, their coach Jacky Pellerin is French (former coach of Franck Esposito), and the communication with him therefore in English. The subject is all the way through the immense heat, sun and humidity in Singapore, compared to the North Atlantic, and that exercise PÃ¡l is doing is a 10 minutes static lift.
Magnus JÃ¡kupsson in his second European semi-final

Jul 9, 2011

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rokur

in Competition

So our guy Magnus JÃ¡kupsson from the Faroe Islands qualified for his second semi-final at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade today, almost reaching the final with a 26.76 and 10th spot of the 16. He is young, one more year as a junior, so he will get there next year :-)
Thorpe and Sullivan going head to head in the kitchen

Jul 8, 2011

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rokur

in Fun

According to The Australian, Ian Thorpe and Eamon Sullivan will be revealing a cooking book each next, Thorpe the “Cook For Your Life” focusing on food he loves while maintaining a healthy, lean body, and Sullivan a more no-nonsense book called “Eamon’s Kitchen: 130 robust no-fuss recipes for everyday and entertaining.”

So, we present Eamon in the kitchen, almost fuss-less :-)

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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 :-)