Tag: Budapest 2010
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CC photo #115: Pál Joensen and Mark Foster in Budapest
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen and British legend Mark Foster having a chat in the Budapest 2010 European Championships mixed zone. Foster really should have been on this side of the fence, but Hungarian security was admiringly tight.
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CC photo #92: Jón & Pál checking out split times at Budapest 2010
Pál Joensen and his coach Jón Bjarnason checking out split times after the 1500 meter freestyle silver medal at the 2010 LEN European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Those black and yellow trunks are ancient, going back to at least the 2008 European Junior Swimming Championships in Beograd, Serbia.
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CC photo #69: Budapest 2010 team internet center
Internet for teams at the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships was provided by parking this big bus inside the team area, complete with computers and everything. Best service I ever saw, maybe boosted by the fact that so few of us seemed to realize it was there :-)
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CC photo #67: A president and his champion
Pál Joensen going out hard in the Budapest 2010 European Championships 800 freestyle prelims, using same tactics as when winning silver in the 1500 the day before. Guy standing is Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese swimming federation, well placed in the VVIP seating area (yup, those are two V’s for Very Very). Sorry for…
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CC photo #43: The Budapest 2010 lane rope pool
A strange sight in the outskirts of the Budapest 2010 European Aquatics Championships competition area. Wondered for a moment what kind of competition they were up to here :-)
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CC photo #16: Pál’s 1500 silver medal from Budapest 2010
This is what we’re fighting for. This and national pride in general :-)
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CC photo #12: Hajós Alfréd plaque at the National Swimming Pool in Budapest
This commemorative plaque says according to Google Translate: Hajós Alfréd 1878 – 1955. Double Olympic gold medalist and design engineer. At the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, winner in the men’s 100 and 200 freestyle. At the 1924 Paris Olympics, silver medal winner in the stadium plan art competition. Designer of the Hungarian…
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CC photo #3: Thumbs up from Alex in Budapest
So this photo is from when I was shooting some sponsor photos of Pál and the rest of us at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships competition pool, between prelims and finals the penultimate day of the meet. European 100 meter breaststroke champion Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) was swimming more or less alone in the…