Tag: Alexander Dale Oen
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Cameron van der Burgh remembering Alex
Beautiful words by South Africa’s world record holder Cameron van der Burgh, in honor of his late rival and friend Alexander Dale Oen. A small excerpt here, read the rest here on Cameron’s blog. Thank you for inviting me into your home and sharing your life with me. Fortunately I have only good memories about…
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CC photo #133: Øygarden in my ears, Tórshavn in my eyes
Don’t think I’ve ever been as torn as today, emotionally, as today following the funeral of Alexander Dale Oen while watching the Faroese Short Course Championships’ prelims / junior championships. Beautiful service, thanks for streaming it online.
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Alexander Dale Oen’s funeral is today, broadcasted live by Norwegian TV
Alexander Dale Oen’s funeral ceremony will begin at 12 noon Norwegian time today, with church service at BlomvÃ¥g Kirke in Øygarden. That is in about 35 minutes from now, NRK and TV2.no are already streaming live, the latter not restricted to Norway. The 300 church seats are reserved for family, friends, neighbors, sport colleagues and…
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Alexander Dale Oen Memorial Fund announced
In connection Alexander Dale Oens tragic death there has been established a Memorial Fund, originally a dream that Alex and his brother Robin had together, which is now being continued by Robin alone, but in the spirit of Alex. In the obituary in Bergens Tidende and Aftenposten today, “As welcomed as flowers, are a gift…
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Alexander Dale Oen – “The heart breaker”
Touching article here on Aftenposten, in Norwegian but worth running through Google Translate. I’ll translate a few excerpts here, as well as I can: His eyes could seem heavy and sleepy. They possibly become that way by being opened at 5 AM every day and spending countless hours in the pool. But his head was…
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‘We have to move on. Alex would have flipped if we didn’t train’
Touching article here on Bergens Tidende, where coach Sondre Solberg and teammate Aleksander Dale Hetland from Alexander Dale Oen’s club Bærumsvømmerne describe the shock they are in now. Solberg the guilt of having left a few days before Alex died (‘What if I had been close to him when it happened, maybe in his room’)…
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CC photo #126: Alex, Jakob Jóhann and others at the 2010 ReykjavÃk International
This must be the ‘best swimmers of the meet’ – podium, Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson, Alexander Dale Oen and a lot of other talented swimmers and officials at the 2010 ReykjavÃk International. My daughter took the photo, participating swimmer on her first assignment for my Faroese site www.svimjing.com :-)
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Robbie Renwick on the tragic death of Dale Oen
Nice blog post here on the Scottish Sun, by Olympic qualified Robbie Renwick, with an important message too: The scary thing is there seems to have been a trend just lately for fit young athletes to have heart problems. First Bolton’s Fabrice Muamba collapsed, then the Italian player, Piermario Morosini, dropped dead on the pitch.…
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CC photo #125: Us and Alexander at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup
Not the best of photos, but a really fond memory from the FINA 2010 World Cup leg in Stockholm. The Faroese swim team together with Alexander Dale Oen.