Category: Faroe Islands
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Mads Glæsner: ‘Wildeboer ruined my Olympics’
Quote this article (in Danish) on Sporten.dk. According to the now 1500 freestyle short course world champion Mads Glæsner, the Danish male swimmers were ‘sacrificed’ for the female, their last 6 months of training downgraded with all focus instead on the needs of the women. – ‘Paulus didn’t hide that the training was not prepared…
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CC photo #407: Coaches trying out lactate training
Part of this weekend’s “Træner 2” basic coaching course here in the Faroe Islands. Here 15 second max sprints back and forth (me skipping the last repeat because I suck miserably at speed and changes of direction). Then 4 x 1 min ‘lactate tolerance’, and then 3 x 3 min endurance. All this so that…
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CC photo #406: Another day, another course
This weekend a basic coaching course arranged by the Faroese Sports Federation with instructors from the Danish Sports Federation. This website slow because of busyness and all that.
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CC photo #405: Pál and Mads pretty beat at Istanbul 2012
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen at the wall and Denmark’s Mads Glæsner over the lane rope at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Mads the now men’s 1500 World Champion in 14:30.01, and Pál the bronze winner in 14:36.93. See the result list here.
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CC photo #404: His first medal
Our local swim club has this in principle great idea to give every swimmer a medal at the annual club meet, by letting them race three at a time and then hand out gold, silver and bronze. Only problem, that the kids realize almost immediately that bronze means last. Bjarki got a silver, and mentioned…
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CC photo #403: First swim meet for Bjarki
Our youngest at the club meet, yesterday 5 February 2013, before his swim. Don’t take my word for it, but I think it was only the goggles pressing his eyelids down that made him look so sad, since the race itself (and the walk to it) went fine.
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Bad weather in the Faroe Islands
So this was yesterday, the day when Zaleski and Korbo were supposed to leave for USA and Denmark respectively, and our British and Slovenian friends also. I think they got away. Another, a bit more crazy video And another, dig the waterfalls going up in the air :-) And this one, from the Sandoy ferry…
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CC photo #402: Club Meet here in Toftir, Faroe Islands
Our local club FLOT arranged its annual club meet today (5 February 2013). We had our two sons competing and one of the daughters coaching :-)
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CC photo #401: Korbo handing out FINA pins at the Tórshavn 2013 FSOS
FINA’s Søren Korbo handing out FINA pins as a thank you to the swimmers from Tórshavn who sacrificed their day off to help out with testing the officials attending the Tórshavn 2013 FINA Swimming Officials Schools course in Tórshavn. In the background FINA’s Carol Zaleski and the Faroese Swimming Association president Jon Hestoy, and our…