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CC photo #192: Shade occupied at Shanghai 2011
That feeling, when you just have to wait a couple of minutes for the bus, but the sun is blazing and the humidity so high that you are soaking before that. Pál Joensen and Jón Bjarnason at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships.
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CC photo #191: Laure Manaudou exits the Rijeka 2008 pool
It had this feeling of a final exit, when Laure Manaudou on the last day of the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships didn’t qualify for the women’s 200 backstroke final, placing 3rd in the prelims but also third of the French, her ‘only’ medal the bronze in the 100 backstroke. But no, after retiring…
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CC photo #190: Our two boys trying out Toftavatn
Jákup and Bjarki testing the waters at Toftavatn in the Faroe Islands today, wife and younger daughter watching in the background. A bit challenging, yes, water maybe 10 degrees Celcius (50 degrees Fahrenheit), but we ended up swimming in it, all three of us.
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CC photo #189: Sanja Jovanović at Rijeka 2008
Croatia’s Sanja Jovanović at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. Still the most impressive crowd I’ve experienced, the Croatian supporters there. She won gold in the 50 and 100 backstroke there.
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CC photo #188: Valentina Artemyeva at Rijeka 2008
Russia’s Valentina Artemyeva at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. She won gold in the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke there, see omegatiming.com.
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CC photo #187: Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa at Debrecen 2012
Just yet another photo of the ‘Phelpsian’ Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa.
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CC photo #186: Magnus and Eyðbjørn at the Faroese Champs 2012
Magnus Jákupsson and Eyðbjørn Joensen during warmup at the 2012 Faroese National (Short Course) Championships. Magnus (in the TYR cap) was only 2 hundredths of a second from qualifying for the 50 butterfly final in the Antwerp 2012 European Junior Championships semi-final this afternoon. Eyðbjørn is Pál’s kid brother, competing at the Nordic Youth Championships…
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CC photo #185: Dinner table at the Stockholm 2011 World Cup
Our table at the Clarion hotel during the Stockholm 2011 World Cup. Closest to the left is Magnus Jákupsson (FAR), semifinalist from the Beograd 2011 European Juniors, then Pál Joensen (FAR) and then Alexander Dale Oen (NOR). The people with the map is a Danish TV crew trying to find their way home. Smiling guy…
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CC photo #184: Biedermann on top of the Budapest 2010 podium
Germany’s Paul Biedermann on top of the medal podium at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships, having won the men’s 200 freestyle in 1:46.06. Russia’s Nikita Lobintsev 2nd in 1:46.51 and the Netherlands’s Sebastiaan Verschuren 3rd in 1:46.91. See result list here.