Year: 2012
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CC photo #79: Masters meet in Vági, March 17th, 2012
Calm before the first race of the Masters meet in Vágur, Faroe Islands, yesterday evening. I competed myself, still nackered because of having tried to swim 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle fast with only two heats in between (and then attending the post-race party).
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Faroese TV on Pál Joensen’s first altitude training camp
Bartal has been busy this weekend, transcribing this segment out of Kringvarp Føroya‘s sports broadcast on March 8th, 2012. On how Pál and Jón joined the Danish swim team on an 4-weeks altitude training camp in Sierra Nevada and Pretoria recently, the first ever for Pál and Jón.
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Norway’s Ingvild Snildal qualifies for the Olympics
After having improved upon the Norwegian women’s 200 butterfly record twice in the same day, Ingvild Snildal yesterday evening won the 100 butterfly at the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2012, qualifying in 58.32, ahead of home favorite Inge Dekker in 58.41 and Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak in 59.63. A bitt off her 56.96 Norwegian record from Rome…
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Ian Thorpe 50.53 and 21st in the 100 free prelims, out of the Olympics
After a disappointing swim in the mens 100 freestyle preliminaries at the Australian Olympic Trials, it is now official that Ian Thorpe will not get to compete at the London Olympics. On a more positive note, Leisel Jones qualified with a time of 1:07.64 in the 100 breaststroke, yesterday evening, behind Leiston Pickett in 1:06.88,…
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Thorpe crushed and speechless
Ian Thorpe says he is crushed after he missed out on the 200m freestyle final at the Olympic trials in Adelaide.
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CC photo #78: Swim meet in Vági today
SuSvim meet in Vágur, Faroe Island today and tomorrow, March 17 – 18, 2012. This site will probably be a bit silent today because of this.
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Underwater thieves evade array of lasers to steal Costa Concordia’s bell
Underwater thieves have evaded an array of laser systems that measure tiny shift in the capsized Costa Concordia shipwreck and 24-hour surveillance by the Italian coast guard to haul off the ship’s bell, a symbolic image associated with the disaster two months ago, when at least 30 people are believed to have perished. Read for…
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Snildal sets Norwegian 200 butterfly record also in the final
Norway’s Ingvild Snildal set a new national 200 meter butterfly record tonight at Amsterdam Swim Cup, improving up the 2:12.38 record from the prelims this morning with a 2:12.29 in the final. Polands Otylia Jedrzejczak won gold in 2:10.30, Snildal silver and then Sweden’s Ida Marko-Varga bronze in 2:13.34, the FINA A qualifying time being…
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CC photo #77: Serbia World Champs at Roma 2009
When at the 2009 FINA World Aquatics Championships, in Rome, Italy, we had time and opportunity to go watch the Serbia vs Croatia water polo semi-final and the Serbia vs Spain final. We had chosen Serbia as ‘our’ team because of the European Juniors in Belgrade in 2008, and that was lucky since Serbia won…