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CC photo #347: Hardy and Meilutyte at the Istanbul 2012 World Champs
USA’s Jessica Hardy and Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte after their 50 breaststroke prelims at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. Meilutyte posted a new championships record of 29.56, Hardy 3rd in 29.74, see result list here
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CC photo #346: Blue Screen over Istanbul 2012
A photo from the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m), the last day before competition starts. Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure this will be okay tomorrow, and they are not the first to have had this happen :-P
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CC photo #345: Practice at the Istanbul 2012 World Championships pool
A photo from the spectator stands at the Sinan Erdem Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, venue of the 11th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)
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CC photo #344: A fun game in our local pool
Don’t take my word for it, but I think this is an invention of our local head coach, Rúni Gaardbo, here at FLOT in Toftir, Faroe Islands: The kids are divided into two teams that must stay behind the lane ropes. The kickboards are arranged in pairs upright as shown on the photo, equal amounts…
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CC photo #343: The President looking forward to an open water swim
“Like swimming in noodle soup”, he said afterwards, describing the experience of swimming in the shallow fresh water lake Vatnið (“the lake”) in Vágur, Suðuroy, Faroe Islands, back in June 2010. Jon Hestoy here to the right, President of the Faroese Swimming Federation, and to the left Jón Bjarnason, coach of Pál Joensen, helping young…
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CC photo #342: A manly hug at the Rome 2009 World Championships
A scene at the Rome 2009 World Swimming Championships. Not sure who they are, but that guy in the pool looks very much like Stefan Nystran (SWE), so I guess it is the men’s 100 freestyle final … maybe Fred Bousquet (FRA) and Cesar Cielo (BRA)? The guy leaving probably Nicolas Oliveira (BFA).
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CC photo #341: Germany’s Erik Steinhagen at the Berlin 2012 World Cup meet
SG Essen‘s Erik Steinhagen ready for the men’s 50 breaststroke final at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. He won silver with a time of 26.71 behind Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli in 26.32, which was a personal record, and when on to a 26.64 and 7th at the Chartres 2012…
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CC photo #340: Faroese coaches planning our Køge Open 2007 relays
Rúni and Petur Heðin assigning Faroese swimmers to what seems to have been 6 relays, before the Køge Open meet in Denmark, back in 2007. The event was a 8×50 mix relay, and it seems our plan was to have every relay swim back, breast, back, fly, breast, crawl, fly & crawl. See result list…
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CC photo #339: Warm-up at Istanbul 2009
Lots of things happening in and around the pool of the LEN 2009 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.