Tag: Lotte Friis
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What a great night to be Nordic
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…
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Pedersen, Friis and Ottesen shooting big guns in Leadville
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 :-)
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Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado
For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…
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Lotte Friis sprained her wrist and some fingers yesterday
Breaking news on Ekstra Bladet: Danish world champion Lotte Friis got her foot stuck during a jump over some booms yesterday, and fell so badly that she afterwards couldn’t move her hand and fingers. It took 4-5 hours to get a diagnosis, while she feared to be out for 2 months because of something broken,…
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Arena presents: Swimming Clinic with Lotte Friis
Lotte Friis has in my opinion one of the most perfect kayaking crawl techniques in the World, as taught by Estonian professor Rein Haljand.
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Danish Open starts with a bang
The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…
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Friis and Pedersen test hypoxic tents
Danish swimmers Lotte Friis and Rikke Møller Pedersen are among the first Danish athletes to test the effect of hypoxic tents, as a mean to prepare for classic altitude camps, and prolong the effect of them. The Danish elite sport organization Team Danmark has criticized the use of hypoxic tents up until 2009, but has…
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USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012
USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out…