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CC photo #85: Pál Joensen happy with his Szczecin 2011 400 freestyle
Pál Joensen after his 400 freestyle at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships. He has a lot more to be happy about now, at the Danish Trials 2012, having qualified for the Olympics in the 400 freestyle, and helped the Danes to be in contention for also an Olympic 4×200 freestyle participation.
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CC photo #84: Chinese fans at Roma 2009 (2)
Members of the Chinese aquatics team well equipped on the final night of the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Gee, almost missed my New Year’s resolution tonight, because of a network outage :-/
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CC photo #83: Pál and Mads at the Rijeka 2008 SC Europeans
Pál Joensen (FAR) and Mads Glæsner (DEN) having a chat at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships venue. They have had many a tight tussle, the last one today, both officially qualifying for the London Olympics in the Danish Trials with a time of 3:46.84 and 3:46.93, respectively.
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CC photo #82: Waiting outside the Jaked stand in Rome
Fun memories from the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships. Birita wanted one of those brand new Jaked supersuits, so we arrived at about 8 in the morning only to find out when the shop opened at 10 that they didn’t have size 20 nor 22. The day before we had been too far back in…
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CC photo #81: Amaury Leveaux with a fan at Rijeka 2008
French swimmer Amaury Leveaux having his photo taken with fan at the 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. First man under 45 seconds in the 100 freestyle … Okay, in a supersuit, but it was excellent nevertheless. And now it looks like he is back, with a 1:46.72, 2nd and Olympic qualifying time…
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CC photo #80: Flags around the Istanbul 2009 pool
Photo taken during the opening ceremony of the Istanbul 2009 European Short Course Championships in the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey.
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CC photo #79: Masters meet in Vági, March 17th, 2012
Calm before the first race of the Masters meet in Vágur, Faroe Islands, yesterday evening. I competed myself, still nackered because of having tried to swim 50 butterfly and 50 freestyle fast with only two heats in between (and then attending the post-race party).
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CC photo #78: Swim meet in Vági today
SuSvim meet in Vágur, Faroe Island today and tomorrow, March 17 – 18, 2012. This site will probably be a bit silent today because of this.
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CC photo #77: Serbia World Champs at Roma 2009
When at the 2009 FINA World Aquatics Championships, in Rome, Italy, we had time and opportunity to go watch the Serbia vs Croatia water polo semi-final and the Serbia vs Spain final. We had chosen Serbia as ‘our’ team because of the European Juniors in Belgrade in 2008, and that was lucky since Serbia won…
