Category: Competition
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Pál cramming between heats at FM 2012
Just a short video from the Faroese Championships this weekend. Pál Joensen had found a quiet spot to read up on history between the 200 freestyle and butterfly heats. I hear that the exam was on Monday morning (Faroese Champs ending at 19:00 Sunday evening, and then, you know, a 2 hour boat ride home…
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Michael Phelps motivated for London
Four years after winning a record eight gold medals in Beijing, Phelps remains the indisputable star of the U.S. Olympic team. His lone availability at the USOC’s media summit drew a full house, with reporters eager to know everything from what he plans on swimming at the London Olympics to whether he’s climbed the famed…
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CC photo #136: The SuSvim victory sign
If you see this kind of clapping in Faroese swimming, it means that someone from Suðuroyar Svimjifelag won. In this case, gold, silver and bronze in the women’s junior 100 butterfly.
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London hacked its traffic lights to please the IOC Olympic evaluation committee
Interesting article on Vanity Fair, via Slashdot: Near the end of the application process, an I.O.C. evaluation committee was permitted to visit London. Bid-committee officials knew that London’s transportation system was a weak spot on the city’s application. “Our nightmare was it would take forever to get to the venues,†Mills recalled. A bid-committee team…
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2 more Faroese records, 1 junior on 3rd day of champs
On this last day of the Faroese short course championships, 2 more senior records and 1 junior were posted, Ægir KlaksvÃk managing a junior record of 1:39.83 in the boys’ 4×50 freestyle, Suðuroyar Svimjifelag a time of 1:47.37 and Faroese record in the women’s 4×50 freestyle, and HS Tórshavn a time of 1:35.26 and Faroese…
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CC photo #135: Pál doing homework between prelim heats
Budapest 2010 European silver medalist and Shanghai 2011 Worlds finalist cramming for exams between the 200 freestyle and 200 butterfly preliminary heats at the Faroese Short Course Championships on May 13, 2012. He won both events and 9 more at these championships, plus a silver medal and some relay medals.
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Anthony Ervin attempting comeback after mysterious layoff
It’s been reported he took up rock music in New York, rode motorcycles and started smoking. He auctioned the Olympic gold medal on eBay for $17,100 and gave it all to 2004 Asian tsunami relief. He simply lost the silver medal. Ervin said he hasn’t lived in the same place for longer than nine months…
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CC photo #134: Magnus Jákupsson (FAR) 55.94 in the 100 SC individual medley
Magnus Jákupsson managed an (at least for us) impressive time of 55.94 in the 100 meter short course IM today at the Faroese Championships, beating Pál Joensen’s Faroese national record of 57.66 from the supersuited days of 2009, and his own Faroese junior record of 57.75 from the Danish short course championships in 2011. Pál…
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Japan’s swimmers defy altitude fears
Japan’s Olympic swimmers will prepare for this year’s London Games by undergoing altitude training as planned, despite the death of Alexander Dale Oen. Read Reuters. “We feel great sorrow at what happened (to Dale Oen),” JSF executive director Masafumi Izumi said. “But the autopsy results did not immediately link his sudden death to the altitude.…