Category: Faroe Islands
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London 2012 day 7 prelims: Sun cruises into the 1500 final
At the London 2012 Olympic swimming competition today, China’s Sun Yang easily posted the quickest time of 14:43.25 in the men’s 1500 freestyle, ahead of Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli in 14:46.23 and Canada’s Ryan Cochrane in 14:49.31, other medal contenders dropping like flies despite of their chance of getting into the final increasing with each…
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CC photo #215: A smug looking president at Roma09
Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, at the Rome 2009 World Aquatic Championships. Tomorrow he’ll be at the London Aquatics Centre, watching Pál Joensen try to qualify for the men’s 1500 freestyle final.
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CC photo #213: Faroe swim boss graciously accepts defeat at Tórshavn 400 Pier Swim
The men’s masters medal podium at Ólavsøkusvimjingin 2012, a 400 meter sea swim along the main pier of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Jon Hestoy president of the Faroese Swimming Association greeting gold winner (and triathlete) Evald Rasmussen, words going something like this: ‘How can we stand a chance when the others take into use such unethical…
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CC photo #212: Group photo before the Tórshavn 400 Pier Swim
Brave sea swimmers ready for the “Ólavsøkusvimjingin 2012”, a 400 meter swim in about 7°C (45°F) warm sea water along the main pier of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Most of them members of the masters team of Tórshavn swim club.
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CC photo 211: A happy Magnus after winning the Tórshavn 400 Pier Swim
They call it “Ólavsøkusvimjingin”, the 400 meter swim along the main pier of Tórshavn, right after the traditional boat races on our national holiday Ólavsøka. Me and Bartal had planned to film it in a relay fashion, one guy filming while the other moved to a new position along the route. Turned out to be…
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CC photo #210: My kids meeting a sea swimmer on Tórshavn harbor today
We are celebrating our national holiday “Ólavsøka” this weekend, which explains the clothes. Sea swimmer is Eyðun Húsgarð, chairman of Havnar Svimjifelag (the swimming club of Tórshavn). Video will be ready later.
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CC photo #209: Hoisting the flags outside the Tórshavn swim pool
Back from the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, head referee in white, member of the federation swim committee in blue and I think Pál’s father in black. Go Pál.
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CC photo #208: A flag you won’t see at the Olympics
The Faroese flag “Merkið” (“The mark”), created in 1919 but banned until World War II when the Allied Forces needed to distinguish between sea vessels of British occupied Faroe Islands and Nazi occupied Denmark. Here in use during the 2008 Faroese national youth swimming championships in Vágur, Suðuroy, hometown of Pál Joensen. He’ll swim under…
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CC photo #202: Pál in a Chinese newspaper
Photo of a page in the newspaper that we got from our guide Cora during the Shanghai 2011 World Swimming Championships. Her parents had noticed ‘her swimmer’ in the paper, we were told the title says something like “One athlete, big dream”.