Year: 2012

CC photo #347: Hardy and Meilutyte at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs

Dec 12, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

USA’s Jessica Hardy and Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after their 50 breaststroke prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilutyte posted a new championships record of 29.56, Hardy 3rd in 29.74, see result list here
The Istanbul 2012 Start Lists are now online

Dec 11, 2012

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rokur

in Competition, Faroe Islands

The busy bees at Omega have released the FINA World Swimming Championships (25) start lists here on omegatiming, we are very happy to not see our guy PÃ¡l in the 1500 prelims, which means that he is in the final.
CC photo #346: Blue Screen over Istanbul 2012

Dec 11, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Fun

A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P
Ian Thorpe wins human rights award

Dec 11, 2012

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rokur

in Gossip, Organization

Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has won this year’s Australian Human Rights Medal for his charity Fountain For Youth‘s work with Indigenous children. See ABC
CC photo #345: Practice at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships pool

Dec 10, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition

A photo from the spectator stands at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, venue of the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)
Yeah right, blame the coach

Dec 9, 2012

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rokur

in Fun

Not swimming related, but fun :-D
CC photo #344: A fun game in our local pool

Dec 9, 2012

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rokur

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

Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, RÃºni Gaardbo, here at FLOT in Toftir, Faroe Islands: The kids are divided into two teams that must stay behind the lane ropes. The kickboards are arranged in pairs upright as shown on the photo, equal amounts…
CC photo #343: The President looking forward to an open water swim

Dec 8, 2012

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rokur

in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Faroe Islands, Fun, Open Water

“Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake VatniÃ° (“the lake”) in VÃ¡gur, SuÃ°uroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left JÃ³n Bjarnason, coach of PÃ¡l Joensen, helping young…
Dangerous Shorebreak

Dec 8, 2012

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rokur

in Nature, Wow

A short quick fix promo of some of the best explosive shorebreak clips from Clark Little Photography.