Category: Faroe Islands
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CC photo #363: Jump!
Our youngest practicing start jumps on his very first (official) swim lesson, back in August 2012. His technique is a bit, ehm, ‘a leap of faith, we’ll work on the entry later’ :-P
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CC photo #362: Our flag and its alphabet neighbours at Istanbul 2012
From left to right Spain (España), Estonia (Eesti), Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), Faroe Islands (Føroyar), Fiji (Viti) and Finland (Suomi), at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey (Türkiye).
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CC photo #358: A Christmas-themed Swim Cap
Seen yesterday at the “SMS Jólasvimjingin 2012” swim meet in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Awesome :-)
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CC photo #357: Our last meet of the year 2012
A fun meet in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, the “SMS jólastevna 2012” today. Main attraction of the meet was the final 6×50 freestyle mix, where each team had to be manned by 2 women, 2 men, 1 coach and 1 club board member. Tórshavn won, the prize a 2200 gram frozen Cherry Valley duck for the…
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CC photo #354: Pál Joensen bronze at Istanbul 2012
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen happy on the FINA 2012 World Championships (25m) medal podium in Istanbul, Turkey, after winning bronze in the men’s 1500 freestyle. Beside him the 2012 World Champ Mads Glæsner (DEN), biding his turn. See result list here.
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Pál Joensen and the Istanbul 2012 theme song
The day before his 1500 bronze medal. We are proud of you, Pal :-)
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The Istanbul 2012 Start Lists are now online
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 Pál in the 1500 prelims, which means that he is in the final.
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CC photo #344: A fun game in our local pool
Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, Rúni 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…
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CC photo #343: The President looking forward to an open water swim
“Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake Vatnið (“the lake”) in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left Jón Bjarnason, coach of Pál Joensen, helping young…