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CC photo #438: The Istanbul 2012 women’s 200 breast medal podium
Medal winners in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Laura Sogar (USA, silver), Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN, gold) and Kanako Watanabe (JPN, bronze). See the result list here.
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CC photo #437: Badem eyeballing me at Istanbul 2012
“Badem”, mascot of the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. They are endangered, the monk seals, only 600 or thereabout left.
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CC photo #436: The Istanbul 2012 men’s 200 fly medal podium
Medal winners in the men’s 200 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Laszlo Cseh (HUN, silver), Kazuya Kaneda (JPN, gold) and Nikolay Skvortsov (RUS, bronze). See the result list here.
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CC photo #435: Water Balloon Catapult Crew at our ‘Swim Day’, Yesterday
So the rules were that the team won that caught the largest number of (intact) water balloons. One girl managed to catch 4 balloons, several kids caught 2 or 1, and most of them got wet. The kid standing is our youngest son choosing to stand on the non-business end of the catapult, the girl…
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CC photo #434: The President taking a photo of swimmers underwater
A scene from the ‘swim day’ that the Faroese Swimming Federation arranged today in Fuglafjørður, Faroe Islands. The President putting his GoPro to good use, taking an underwater group photo of a batch of swimmers that had just been through a basic life saving course / swim test.
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CC photo #433: Ilaria Bianchi on top of the Istanbul 2012 medal podium
Italy’s Ilaria Bianchi gold winner in the women’s 100 meter butterfly at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. I sat beside her mother, which might explain why she’s looking this way. See the result list here
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CC photo #432: KawÄ™cki after winning the Istanbul 2012 men’s 200 back
It was awesome, the way Poland’s RadosÅ‚aw KawÄ™cki moved past Ryan Lochte underwater after the final turn, to win the men’s 200 meter backstroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. See the result list here
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CC photo #431: Ryan fans at Istanbul 2012
Fans of Ryan Lochte at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. He was very popular there :-)
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CC photo #430: Posing with the mascots at Istanbul 2012
Swimmers from I guess Saint Lucia taking photos with the mascots at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey.