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  • Danes and Faroese to confirm their Olympic spots this weekend

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    Starting Thursday 22 and ending on Sunday 25, all Danish and Faroese Olympic qualified and hopefuls will compete at the Danish Trials 2012 in Copenhagen, trying to either make the qualification time for the London 2012 Olympics, or the European Championships in Debrechen, or if they have already done so, a lesser ‘stability time’ to…

  • Ottesen teaches her date for a day how to track start

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    In the Danish TV show “Emils damer” (Emil’s Dames), lucky reporter Emil tries out what it is like to be the boyfriend of ten famous Danish women for 24 hours (yeah, you can do that, but the job is taken and the waiting list is full). In this video, he tries out dryland with Danish…

  • The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason

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    So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes…

  • Paulus Wildeboer on the (former) ‘laziness’ of Jeanette Ottesen

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    If you can survive the sections where Jeanette speaks in Danish (or even better, understand them :-), there is an interesting interview here (in English) with Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, on how Jeanette used to be ‘lazy’, and on how she changed her attitude. What Jeanette says in return, is mostly confirmation of…

  • What a great night to be Nordic

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    Denmark and Norway did well tonight at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with Lotte Friis (DEN) winning the 800 free in a world textile best 8:07.53, Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN) winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.55, Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) taking gold in the 100 breaststroke with a 57.05, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) taking…

  • Jeanette Ottesen battles a Danish ice hockey player

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    World Champion Jeanette Ottesen versus Frederik Storm, ice hockey player on the Danish national team, with the decision made to have the water liquid rather than frozen. In Danish yes, but I’m sure you’ll be able to pick out the winner, regardless of language :-)

  • Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training

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    Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…

  • Pedersen, Friis and Ottesen shooting big guns in Leadville

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    Danish breaststroker Rikke Møller Pedersen interviewing world champions Lotte Friis and Jeanette Ottesen at at shooting range in Leadville, Colorado. All in Danish, but who needs to understand what they saying, just look at their faces :-)

  • Icelandic Jakobsson sets Norwegian record at Danish Open

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    Icelandic born Sindri Þór Jakobsson set a Norwegian record at Danish Open 2011 today, with a time of 2:02.38 in the 200 butterfly. Andreas Schiellerup and Daniel Skaaning set Danish junior records, Jeanette Ottesen and Pernille Blume qualified for Shanghai 2011, and three swimmers qualified for the European junior championships in Belgrade this summer.