Category: Faroe Islands
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Yippee, my first story in Bulgarian media
So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put…
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CC photo #30: Pál with his Åland 2009 medals
The Faroe Islands won most medals at the Ã…land 2009 NatWest Island Games, in swimming the second time in a row, and for all sports the first time ever. The Faroe Islands won a total of 34 gold medals, 23 silver and 24 bronze medals in the 14 different sports, whereof the swimmers won 21…
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Behold, a Faroese meteorological tsunami
This is footage from Sørvágur in the Faroe Island on January 18th, 2012, the same day as those storm photos you might remember. It is called a meteotsunami or meteorological tsunami, and is a wave phenomenon of meteorological origin, where traveling air pressure disturbances (in this case a huge atmospheric low pressure) generate barotropic ocean…
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CC photo #22: Pál and Eyðbjørn ready for the Jóansøku 2010 lake swim
Pál Joensen and Eyðbjørn Joensen ready for the Jóansøku 2010 open water swim in Vági, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands. Eyðbjørn with the thumbs up has opted for the insulated solution, while Pál opted for the really fast (and cold) Jaked ‘supersuit’ solution.
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A photo of Faroese weather from this week
This picture has been going viral these past two days, taken by Jóannis Sørensen on January 18, 2012 at Viðareiði in the Faroe Islands. He was on radio just now saying it had been shared about 2000 times already. He calls it “Where Nature Rules“. My brother Bartal (the weather-interested geologist) sent me this weather…
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Faroese singer/songwriter Eivør sings “May It Be” for our Queen
Big party this weekend, celebrating the now 40 year reign of our Queen Margrethe II of Denmark. I wasn’t invited, but Eivør Pálsdóttir took down the house with this live interpretation of Irish musician Enya’s “May it Be”. Our DNA reveals that our male ancestors are Norwegian and the female Celts, go figure.
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CC photo #14: The Faroese flag “Merkið” flying high in Shanghai
The Faroese flag “Merkið” in the midst of the entire swimming world’s forest of flags, outside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai during the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships 2011. I got to touch it for inspection, no silk expert here, but it seemed like the nicest material possible. Called Merkið or ‘The Mark’ because…
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Temporary job opening at SuSvim
Jón Bjarnason head coach of Suðuroyar Svimjifelag is searching for a temp, see Facebook: “If you are a job seeking swim coach, or if you know someone who is, let me know. Perhaps you would like to experience the Faroe Islands for a few weeks, starting in less than 3 weeks so hurry up :-)…
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More crazy pushup (and pullup) fun from Vági
Some youngsters from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur, Faroe Islands strutting their stuff. I don’t know how ‘perfect’ their form is at times, but they’ve sure got the energy! That last Berns vs SuSvim face-off thing is an internal joke, I think, between the director here Jón Bjarnason (head coach of SuSvim) and Berns head coach…