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CC photo #210: My kids meeting a sea swimmer on Tórshavn harbor today
We are celebrating our national holiday “Ólavsøka” this weekend, which explains the clothes. Sea swimmer is Eyðun Húsgarð, chairman of Havnar Svimjifelag (the swimming club of Tórshavn). Video will be ready later.
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CC photo #209: Hoisting the flags outside the Tórshavn swim pool
Back from the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships, head referee in white, member of the federation swim committee in blue and I think Pál’s father in black. Go Pál.
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CC photo #208: A flag you won’t see at the Olympics
The Faroese flag “Merkið” (“The mark”), created in 1919 but banned until World War II when the Allied Forces needed to distinguish between sea vessels of British occupied Faroe Islands and Nazi occupied Denmark. Here in use during the 2008 Faroese national youth swimming championships in Vágur, Suðuroy, hometown of Pál Joensen. He’ll swim under…
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CC photo #207: A focused Sara Nordenstam at Debrecen 2012
Norway’s Sara Nordenstam before the women’s 200 breaststroke semifinal at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She went on to win the event in 2:26.91.
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CC photo #206: An emotional Petra Chocova at Debrecen 2012
Czech Republic’s Petra Chocova on top of the Debrecen 2012 medal podium as European Champion in the women’s 50 meter breaststroke. Her winning time 31.25, see result list here.
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CC photo #205: Boglárka Kapas on the Debrecen 2012 medal podium
Debrecen 2012 European Champion in the women’s 800 freestyle, Hungary’s Boglárka Kapas in 8:26.49 (see result list here). Hungary also took bronze with Eva Risztov posting 8:27.87, szép volt lányok!.
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CC photo #204: Szép volt lányok
Hungarian spectators at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships applauding Boglárka Kapas and Éva Risztov for their gold and bronze medals in the women’s 800 freestyle (see result list here). According to Google Translate this means “Well done girls” or “beautiful girls” in Hungarian, in this case both answers most certainly apply :-)
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CC photo #203: Wall fountain at Roma09
The wall fountain by the entrance of the 13th FINA World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Italy, back in 2009.
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CC photo #202: Pál in a Chinese newspaper
Photo of a page in the newspaper that we got from our guide Cora during the Shanghai 2011 World Swimming Championships. Her parents had noticed ‘her swimmer’ in the paper, we were told the title says something like “One athlete, big dream”.