Tag: Alexander Dale Oen
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Dale Oen won’t get a statesman’s funeral, so his municipality says “we’ll pay”
There has been talk about Alexander Dale Oen getting a statesman’s funeral, as did ski jumper Birger Ruud (1911 – 1998) and marathon runner Grete Waitz (1953 – 2011). But then yesterday the Norwegian government decided not to do this, and then the municipality of Øygarden confirmed that they would like to help as a…
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Alexander Dale Oen – Tribute
“Rest in peace, Alexander Dale Oen, 1985 – 2012. You were a great sports star and accomplished incredibly much in your far too short life. You will never be forgotten.”
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Dale Oen’s autopsy inconclusive, shock waves near and far
The autopsy conducted on Alexander Dale Oen Tuesday found no evidence on how he died, no anatomic cause of death and no trauma associated with the death, additional test are running but it could take eight weeks or longer to get final test results. The Japan Swimming Federation is reconsidering altitude training ahead of the…
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Alexander Dale Oen’s teammates back in Norway and on TV
The Norwegian national swimming team arrived at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo this morning, of course swarmed by local media. A sad Aleksander Hetland discloses that Dale Oen was doing fine on his last day, in no pain at all, “Now I haven’t got my training partner anymore. We had made great plans for the summer…
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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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When the hero of your kids dies
Andreas Selliaas has written the most touching blog post here in Norwegian. I’ll allow myself to translate most of it here, as well as I can, but if you read this and like it then you should visit that post and tweet it or whatever to pay tribute to the author. Beautifully put, in a very…
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RIP Alexander Dale Oen
Haven’t got much strength to write anything yet, so here’s a quick list out of Twitter. Just a quick list where I’ve favorited RIP tweets about Alex, favoriting felt wrong but it was the solution I could find. And the widget won’t let me list more than 20, so here is the rest.
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Alexander Dale Oen: The Final Interview
Tough one to watch, good that SwimmingWorld Magazine put it out, though.
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CC photo #123: Alexander and Jakob Jóhann on top of Shanghai
Norway’s Alexander Dale Oen and Iceland’s Jakob Jóhann Sveinsson on top of the Shanghai World Financial Center supertall skyscraper, on a day off at the Shanghai 2011 World Aquatics Championships. So sad today, my thoughts go out to his family, the Norwegian swimming community, especially those who endured those days in Shanghai, you guys over…