Category: Competition
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CC photo #229: Swimmers ready for “Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012”
Open water swimmers ready for the swim from Tórshavn to Nólsoy (the island ahead of them). Only about 5K in a straight line, but the current typically slings you way south (to the right on the picture) and then back again north so fast that swimmers sometimes have drifted clear off the island before being…
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Russia’s head coach Vorontsov possibly fired after lackluster London Games
Read The Voice Of Russia: In Beijing, Russia won 23 gold medals, and in London, 24. In swimming, there was no gold at all. The swimmers’ silver count exceeded the one in Beijing by only one medal. Accordingly, head coach of the Russian swimming team Andrei Vorontsov has already been sacked. In other news, here…
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U.S. Olympic swimming post-Phelps
Despite all-time Olympic medal winner Michael Phelps saying this is his last Olympics, the future of the U.S. team looks bright. Terrell Brown speaks with Time magazine senior writer Sean Gregory for the latest from London. See CBS News
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CC photo #228: These Santas sure come from Greenland
Just look at their suits! A gang of Santa Clauses seen during the 2011 European Short Course Championships in Szczecin in Poland, between our hotel and the pool.
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German London Olympic coach in court on sex charges
A German London 2012 Olympic swimming coach is facing 18 counts of sexual misconduct with an underage swimmer between August, 2004 through March, 2006, see SwimmingWorld Magazine. The 40-year-old apparently defends himself with the girl having been 16 at the time of their first sexual contact, the court now having to clarify whether their relationship…
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Making of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games’ logo
Only 1400 days and then some to go :-) Making of Rio 2016 from Tátil Design de Ideias on Vimeo.
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CC photo #227: Nólsoy’s Gate of Honor and Diana Victoria
The finishing line of the annual open water swim between Tórshavn and Nólsoy, the Gate of Honor made from the jaws of a whale, back in the 70s. The boat in the foreground is Ove Joensen’s Diana Victoria, at tradition Faroese boat he built and custom made to row the 900 nautical miles (1,700 km)…
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Video from Nólsoyarsvimjingin 2012
A little something I put together from the Tórshavn to Nólsoy open water swim Saturday, using footage from mine and Hestoy’s GoPros. Music unfortunately a bit dark, but that was what I could find in a hurry, searching for “sea” and a suitable duration.
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Olympic gold no walk in the park for Ishchenko & Romashina
Nice segment here off Russia Today, featuring Russia’s gold winning synchronized swimming duet Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina, on how they trained 10 hours a day for the London 2012 Olympics. They were also part of the gold winning team, so double Olympic gold for them. London 2012 Synchronised Swimming – Synchro duet of Ishchenko,…