Tag: Alexander Dale Oen
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Sindri Jakobsson back on track after a traumatic year
Icelandic-born Sindri Þór Jakobsson (21) was one of the two Norwegian national team members who were in the room when Alexander Dale Oen was found lifeless during their altitude camp in Flagstaff, USA last year. He competed at the following Debrecen 2012 Europeans and the Dutch Open, but was struggling with the traumatic experience. Read…
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Swim stars remember Dale Oen for his friendliness
Olympic gold medalists Cameron van der Burgh, Dániel Gyurta and Olympic silver medalist Michael Jamieson visited Norway’s TV2 this morning, to talk about their relationship with Alexander Dale Oen. See story and video on tv2.no, almost completely in English.
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Cameron van der Burgh visited his friend Alexander Dale Oen’s grave today
Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh has arrived in Norway, ready for the Bergen Swim Festival 2013 / Alexander Dale Oen Memorial 19 – 21 April 2013. Today he visited his friend Alexander Dale Oen’s grave, a lot of the speak is in Norwegian, with Cameron’s comments in English. See story and video on TV2.no
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Katinka Hosszu to swim all 15 women’s events at Bergen Swim Festival 2013
The Bergen Swim Festival 2013 – Alexander Dale Oen Memorial promises to be ‘the biggest and best ever’, when 450+ swimmers including 44 international will compete at Sentralbadet in Bergen, starting this Friday 19 April at 15:00 local time and ending late Sunday 21st. World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu from Hungary is on the startlist…
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Wow, Gyurta spoke Norwegian when he honored Dale Oen with a special gold medal
My utmost respect, Dániel Gyurta’s pronounciation was really good, when he presented this gold medal to Alexander Dale Oen’s family. Read more on for instance Speed Endurance, Swim News and SwimmingWorld Magazine As I promised at the London Olympics, I will present a medal to the family of my friend Alex. I am convinced that Alex…
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Van der Burgh and Gyurta to race at Bergen Swim Festival in memory of Dale Oen
According to tv2.no, both Olympic champions Cameron in the men’s breaststroke Van Der Burgh and Daniel Gyurta will attend the Bergen Swim Festival 19-21 April 2013, to honor their fallen friend Alexander Dale Oen. The meet was cancelled last year, as it was scheduled to be arranged only days after Oen’s untimely death, a short…
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Pál Joensen on Trans World Sport
Woohoo … It is ready, the IMG / Trans World Sport feature on Pál Joensen from last August, also featuring the Faroese prime minister, our federation president, his now former coach Jón Bjarnason, hardcore open water swimmer Cecilia Wigant Eysturdal, and the memory of Alexander Dale Oen ! :-)
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Dani Gyurta will send a replica of his Olympic gold to Dale Oen’s family
Olympic Champion Daniel Gyurta today told Hungarian press, that he will have a copy made of his London 2012 gold medal, and send it to Alexander Dale Oen’s relatives, as a gesture saying that not only Norway shares the pain. ‘We became very good friends this year’, he said, ‘I’m sure that he would have…
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London 2012 day 2 finals: Vollmer and Van Der Burgh post World records
At the London 2012 Olympic swimming finals yesterday evening, the French men upset everyone by taking back the 4×100 freestyle Olympic gold medal that they lost in 2008, clocking 3:09.93 with USA in 3:10.38 and 2nd and Russia in 3:11.41 and 3rd, the Aussie ‘weapons of mass destruction’ backfiring to a 3:11.63 and 4th. USA’s…