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CC photo #49: Japanese fans at Roma 2009
Photo taken from the athletes’ stand at the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships.
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CC photo #48: MankoÄ has a great taste in computers
Got to take this photo of Slovenia’s Peter MankoÄ in our mutual Rome 2009 World Championships team hotel. One of the great things about going to the big events, is that you get to meet your heroes in person, typically like here because we all need to go to the lobby to have decent wireless…
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CC photo #47: Peter MankoÄ celebrates his 9th consecutive 100 IM EC SC win
An amazing feat by Slovenia’s Peter MankoÄ, to win the European Short Course Championships 100 IM nine (9) times in a row, before a bronze in Istanbul 2009, a silver in Eindhoven 2010 and then gold again in Szczecin 2011. The photo is from Rijeka 2008, let me just list up the rest of his…
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CC photo #46: Óli Mortensen 2nd Faroese under 16 minutes in the 1500 SC
Young gun Óli Mortensen from Havnar Svimjifelag became the 2nd Faroese swimmer ever to swim under 16 minutes in the 1500 meter (short course) freestyle, when he managed a 15:53.39 at the Ægir meet in KlaksvÃk this weekend. Born in 1996, the first Faroese swimmer ever was Pál Joensen (1990) with a 15:56.21 in 2007.…
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CC photo #45: Kristina Elin Thomsen took down 2 Faroese records this weekend
Kristina Elin Thomsen from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is only 13 years old and not very tall at that, but still blew away two relatively long-standing Faroese senior records this weekend at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk. First with a 2:25.36 in the 200 meter short course butterfly (yeah I know, we need to improve on that), and…
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CC photo #44: Svimjihøllin à KlaksvÃk
The swimming pool in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands. First indoor 25 meter pool in the Faroe Islands, finished in 1974 and then refurbished once or twice since then. Picture taken on my way to a swim meet there last night, going back in the morning.
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CC photo #43: The Budapest 2010 lane rope pool
A strange sight in the outskirts of the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships competition area. Wondered for a moment what kind of competition they were up to here :-)
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CC photo #42: Italy’s record setting Rijeka 2008 relay
Italy’s Alessandro Terrin (breaststroke), Mirco di Tora (backstroke), Marco Belotti (butterfly) and Filippo Magnini (freestyle) posing for a photo after the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships record setting 4×50 medley time of 1:32.91.
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CC photo #41: Geoff Huegill signing autographs in Stockholm
The kids have this fun tradition at the Stockholm leg of the FINA World Cup Tour, ‘fishing’ with their autographs books from the balcony. Here they’ve caught Geoff Huegill, gold winner in the 50 meter butterfly that year (2011).