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CC photo #246: Rijeka 2008 Women’s 50 Breast Medal Winners
The Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships women’s 50 breaststroke medal winners. From left to right Moniek Nijhuis, NED (bronze in 30.45), Valentina Artemyeva, RUS (gold in 29.96) and Janne Schaefer, GER (silver in 30.37). See result list here.
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CC photo #245: Italian swimmers on a billboard in Rome
A Dolce & Gabbana ad near the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy, featuring some of Italy’s most prominent Italian swimmers. I guess in connection with the then ongoing Roma 2009 World Swimming Championships. Shot taken while driving past it in the shuttle bus.
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CC photo #244: Faroe Islands at London 2012
The Faroese team at the London 2012 Paralympics. Flagbearer is our single competitor Ragnvaldur Jensen, who will participate in the men’s 100 breaststroke on Thursday 6 September, 2012, the one waving the flag in the back his coach Rúni Gaardbo, head coach here in our local club FLOT in Toftir. Here is them walking in,…
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CC photo #243: A stressful moment at Shanghai 2011
The view from our seats just minutes before the last day of finals at the Shanghai 2012 World Swimming Championships. They had it ready in time ! :-)
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CC photo #242: A well-equipped photographer at Rijeka 2008
Don’t take my word for it, but I think he is Swiss.
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CC photo #241: Oldest and youngest, coach and swimmer
Yup, that is right, I’m blatantly pushing my kids into swimming. First day of swimming for our youngest, last Saturday, second year of coaching for our oldest.
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CC photo #240: 3 guys having fun with a fishing crate in Toftir harbor
A strange sight in Toftir harbor, yesterday evening, three young men who’d put on wetsuits and lowered a fishing crate into the harbor, to see if they could get up into it all three at once. Quite difficult, by the looks of it, as it was very prone to keeling over. Moments later, all three…
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CC photo #239: Our youngest now also a registered swimmer
He protested this morning that he couldn’t join our local swimming club, since he didn’t know how to swim. ‘I only know how to jump and dive and make somersaults’. I guess we forced him to the registration / free swim today, and I guess it went okay ;-)