Month: April 2012
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CC photo #114: The NEG 2012 group photo (opposite direction)
So this is Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, taking a group photo of us all (minus him) just before our foreign friends boarded the busses to the airport (yes, I’m an ass showing you this photo instead of his :-). That rock behind him is Faroese artist Tróndur Patursson’s sculpture “Stone with…
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Three drunk Aussies break into SeaWorld, swim with dolphins, steal a penguin
“Dirk the Penguin had a frightening ordeal. Police say after waking up with the penguin, one of the suspects panicked and let him go in a waterway known to have sharks. Witnesses who found Dirk say something chased him out of the water. Once he got on land, he was chased by a dog before…
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CC photo #113: Speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar
Just a teaser … they had set up a real soap box speaker’s corner at Hotel Føroyar yesterday evening, as part of the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching. And we actually had 4 people stand up on the box and speak, on tape and in my possession ;-)
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Deaf swimmer Marcus Titus gets hand signals reinstated at US Trials
This is great, USA Swimming decided Thursday to allow hand signals at the U.S. Olympic Trials to accommodate deaf swimmers at the start of the races, reversing the organization’s decision issued less than 48 hours earlier, more or less because of campaign on Facebook started byone of the nation’s top breaststroker and deaf athlete Marcus…
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CC photo #112: Our conference poster up at Hotel Føroyar
A nice touch up at Hotel Føroyar, where most of our foreign guests stay during the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching this weekend.
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11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching launched
So I’m a bit busy filming and doing other stuff, and it seems that at the same time this website is struggling because of going over the allocated memory resources (read: too much success :-). But the conference is on, first lecturer Jens Bruun is speaking, see www.neg2012.com. And by the way, I’m putting pictures…
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CC photo #111: Oussama Mellouli after the Dubai 2010 men’s 1500 freestyle
A memorable moment on TV in our hotel room in Dubai, from when Tunesia’s Oussama Mellouli had swum his 1500 freestyle at the Dubai 2010 World Short Course Championships morning session, ending up winning in the impressive time of 14:24.16.
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British Gas GBR Swimming Team – 100 Days to Go
A video from yesterday, now on YouTube with 99 days to go ! :-)
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South African trials: Crous, Le Clos qualify for the Olympics
At the South African Nationals today, Charl Crous confirmed his qualification in the men’s 100 backstroke by winning the final with a time of 54.18, well under the FINA A cut of 54.40. Chad Le Clos qualified for a third swim in the Olympics with a time of 1:55.30 in the men’s 200 butterfly, third-ranked…