Tag: FM 2012
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CC photo #417: Pál being interviewed at the 2012 Faroe Champs
Pál Joensen in the interview corner of the 2012 Faroese (Short Course) Championships in our capitol of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.
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CC photo #200: A tame duck outside the Faroe Champs 2012
No, not a lame duck but a tame duck outside the main doors of the swimming pool in Tórshavn during the Faroese (Short Course) Championships 2012. Someone fed it bread, maybe even cake, but when we went inside a gull dove down and stole it all.
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CC photo #197: Our president greeting Magnus at FM 2012
Jon Hestoy, president of the Faroese Swimming Association, congratulating young Magnus Jákupsson (1994) at the 2012 Faroese (Short Course) Swimming Championships. The occasion that Magnus had won our highest-ranked ‘starred golden pin’ for his Faroese record of 55.94 in the 100 IM. Magnus has been a busy man these past 12 days, setting 7 Faroese…
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Pál cramming between heats at FM 2012
Just a short video from the Faroese Championships this weekend. Pál Joensen had found a quiet spot to read up on history between the 200 freestyle and butterfly heats. I hear that the exam was on Monday morning (Faroese Champs ending at 19:00 Sunday evening, and then, you know, a 2 hour boat ride home…
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CC photo #136: The SuSvim victory sign
If you see this kind of clapping in Faroese swimming, it means that someone from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag won. In this case, gold, silver and bronze in the women’s junior 100 butterfly.
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2 more Faroese records, 1 junior on 3rd day of champs
On this last day of the Faroese short course championships, 2 more senior records and 1 junior were posted, Ægir KlaksvÃk managing a junior record of 1:39.83 in the boys’ 4×50 freestyle, Suðuroyar Svimjifelag a time of 1:47.37 and Faroese record in the women’s 4×50 freestyle, and HS Tórshavn a time of 1:35.26 and Faroese…
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CC photo #135: Pál doing homework between prelim heats
Budapest 2010 European silver medalist and Shanghai 2011 Worlds finalist cramming for exams between the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly preliminary heats at the Faroese Short Course Championships on May 13, 2012. He won both events and 9 more at these championships, plus a silver medal and some relay medals.
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CC photo #134: Magnus Jákupsson (FAR) 55.94 in the 100 SC individual medley
Magnus Jákupsson managed an (at least for us) impressive time of 55.94 in the 100 meter short course IM today at the Faroese Championships, beating Pál Joensen’s Faroese national record of 57.66 from the supersuited days of 2009, and his own Faroese junior record of 57.75 from the Danish short course championships in 2011. Pál…
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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.