Category: Faroe Islands
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Pál and Frans in the 400 meter freestyle Szczecin 2011 final this evening
Our guy Pál Joensen cruised to a 3:42.37 ‘textile best’ and 3rd spot in the 400 meter European final, here in Szczecin, behind Denmark’s Mads Glæsner in 3:41.71 and Germany’s Paul Biedermann in 3:42.18. And another full-blood Faroese was 10th in 3:44.68, Frans Johannesen whose parents are from Faroe Islands, but who swims for Denmark…
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A quick update on Aksenova’s and Joensen’s situation in Vágur
As mentioned before, Russian record holder and Olympian Anastasia Aksenova is currently trying out training in Vágur, here in the Faroe Islands, now almost for two weeks. She competed at a local meet last Sunday, beating our record holder in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.26 against Guðrun’s 26.55. And she endured our…
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Slow day while this storm passes
Funny weather guys storm.no send their regards on Facebook: ‘Faroe Islands, hang in there!’ Already getting dark at 1400 hours, dark humor also from Faroese on Facebook “Everything above 40 meters per second is called ‘clean-up day’!” (because of the public notice that people should tidy up and fasten everything that will otherwise fly). Or…
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Russian swim star to try out Vágur
This is surreal to me, but Russian swim star Anastasia Aksenova will arrive at the airport here on the Faroe Islands this Monday evening, to try out practice at Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur. Yup, the club of Jón Bjarnason where Pál Joensen trains. Aksenova is the Russian 100 meter freestyle record holder (53.20), and won…
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 2
So, after a quick change of camera (and Home-made solution to secure the additional camera to the incompatible tripod by using packaging from the recently bought batteries), we go on about Home’s visit to the Faroe Islands, digging deeper into the project of Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in Suðuroy. I ask what Dr. Gharavi…
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Interviewing Dr Homayun Gharavi – Part 1
This last week we had Dr Homayun Gharavi MD PhD PhD visiting Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason in their home pool in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, where he did intensive work with Pál and also conducted quite a few dryland sessions for him, his club and some visitors. This is a big shot double-PhD medical…
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Pál Joensen on Danish National TV
We had a TV crew from the Danish national broadcasting channel DR following us to the Faroe Islands today, who are doing a segment for next Saturday evening. Already this evening, they had a short TV segment ready about Pál’s win in Stockholm, where he says he’s happy about winning a gold in Stockholm for…
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Iceland defeats the Faroe Islands in 3rd annual dual meet
Badly pressed for time here, and quite tired from last night, I’ll just quote SwimmingWorld Magazine, who had the story already yesterday (LOL, giving myself a high-five here :-) IN an exciting head-to-head matchup of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the team from Iceland proved to have just a bit more in the tank than…
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A bit about the 2011 FAR-ISL Dual Meet
This Saturday evening the 8th of October at 17:30 GMT, we the Faroese will be the host of the 3rd annual dual meet between Faroe Islands and Iceland, featuring some of the best swimmers from both countries. It is a 2 hour televised event, quite impressive if I may say so myself, with red carpets…