Category: Faroe Islands
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CC photo #128: Pál showing kids in Sørvágur where he’s been
From an event we arranged for kids in Sørvágur, when Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason were enroute to the South African Championships in 2010. They unfortunately have no swim club there, yet, so we tried to inspire. That kid in the Manchester United hat points to (approximately) where they were going, and to Australia and…
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CC photo #127: Start splashes at the 2009 Faroese Championships
A photo from the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships. ‘Short Course’ in parenthesis because we only have short course pools here. This year’s Faroese championships start on Thursday, to be televised and probably streamed online and everything, I’ll get back on that one later.
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CC photo #124: Alexander and Pál at the Budapest 2010 Europeans
A fond memory from the Budapest 2012 European Championships, Alexander Dale Oen and Pál Joensen having a chat by the warm-up pool. This was the first big meet after the supersuit were banned, and they both did really good, so we were all really happy.
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A video from the “Jóansøkusvimjingin 2011”
Just something I put together last night, from the Drelnes – Tvøroyri open water swim here in the Faroe Islands, last summer. Bartal told me to just cut short clips out and order them chronologically (which I have approximately done), and then choose a song from the vast YouTube audio collection that fitted in. Well,…
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CC photo #121: Support staff at Jóansøkusvimjingin 2011
Escort boat following the last swimmer at the open water swim on Jóansøka 2011, from across the firth of Tvøroyri in the Faroe Islands. I’m the guy with the camera in the front of the boat.
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CC photo #119: Warm-up at Køge Open 2007
Just a photo from the 2007 Køge Open meet in Denmark, sort of the ‘B-meet’ of the Danish Short Course Championships, held at the same time for those swimmers who didn’t qualify for the championships, plus a few foreigners like us the Faroese and some Swedes. Camera my old trusty Nokia N93, why was it…
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CC photo #118: Young officials hard at work at FOMM 2011
It looked very intense, the officials’ technical meeting at the (still mostly for fun) Faroese Masters Championships 2011, where we sort of switch roles with swimmers taking over as officials, and many of the officials jumping into the pool. But if you look closely, you will realize that they are all bent over a pizza…
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CC photo #117: Faroese flags outside the Tórshavn swim pool
Svimjihøllin à Gundadali, main swimming pool of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, all dressed up to greet young swimmer Magnus Jákupsson after his successful Nordic Youth Championships participation back in July 2010, where he won gold in the 50 backstroke, silver in the 50 butterfly and bronze in the 200 backstroke. Had to find a photo with…
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3 interesting talks at the NEG 2012 Speaker’s Corner event
So at the just-for-fun Speaker’s Corner event on Friday night at Hotel Føroyar, our federation president Jon Hestoy got into a mine-is-bigger-than-yours competition with Ilkka Keskinen from Finland and Hafþór Gudmundsson from Iceland, speakers at the 11th Nordic Conference in Elementary Swimming Teaching, on how many 5-6th grade kids could swim in their countries. Unfortunately…