Month: January 2012
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The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason
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…
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Swim and Survive with Eamon Sullivan
1 in 5 kids can’t swim the length of a pool, even if their life depended on it. Help Royal Life Saving reduce child drowning, visit swimandsurvive.com.au.
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CC photo #31: Magnus and Birita at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup
Faroese swimmers Magnus Jákupsson and Birita Debes at the Stockholm leg of the FINA 2010 World Cup series. We are a bit early as you can see, and therefore have plenty of space for practice.
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Learn to swim – Better Health Channel
Featuring Tammy van Wisse and a not-so-great up-and-coming swimmer called Tony Shaw. For more information about water safety, visit the Better Health Channel website.
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Yippee, my first story in Bulgarian media
So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put…
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CC photo #30: Pál with his Åland 2009 medals
The Faroe Islands won most medals at the Ã…land 2009 NatWest Island Games, in swimming the second time in a row, and for all sports the first time ever. The Faroe Islands won a total of 34 gold medals, 23 silver and 24 bronze medals in the 14 different sports, whereof the swimmers won 21…
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Sarah Sjöström sets 2 Swedish senior records at Junior SC Nationals
After breaking the Swedish 200 IM short course senior record at the junior nationals on Friday with a 2:08.17, she yesterday cleared also Therese Alshammar’s 12-year-old record of 52.17 in the 100 freestyle, with a 52.15, ahead of Michelle Coleman in 52.96 and 15-year-old Louise Hansson in 53.73. Via SwimNews Videos from the Swedish Junior…
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“Back to the cap” – freediving in Reunion Islands
Someone has been using the ‘Documentary’ Movie Trailer theme in iMovie. But it works, and that fish school is just amazing. “BACK TO THE CAP” – Freediving in Reunion Island from Farouck Moullan on Vimeo.
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Freediver Patrick Musimu
In June 2005, Patrick Musimu redefined human boundaries and became the first freediver to reach a depth below 200 meters (218 yards, 656 feet). Great pro-quality video here featuring him investigating the ancient freediving techniqe of the sponge fishermen on the island of Kalymnos in Greece, where they used a special (heavy) stone called a…