Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • Nyad, Torres et al push the limits of athletic excellence

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    Life-affirming post here on The Washington Times: Dara Torres became the oldest female swimmer in Olympic Games history in 2008. The American won three silver medals at age 41. Now she’s training to make the U.S. team competing at the 2012 Games/ Torres will be 45 when the London Olympics begin on July 27, 2012.…

  • Iceland defeats the Faroe Islands in 3rd annual dual meet

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    Badly pressed for time here, and quite tired from last night, I’ll just quote SwimmingWorld Magazine, who had the story already yesterday (LOL, giving myself a high-five here :-) IN an exciting head-to-head matchup of Iceland and the Faroe Islands, the team from Iceland proved to have just a bit more in the tank than…

  • It is getting hectic here

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    Straight after work, it was north to Klaksvík to be interviewed on live TV about this upcoming dual meet and the fact that SwimmingWorld.TV will be hosting the on-demand videos. Meanwhile it gets mentioned on Streamlined News. Man, I hope our technical setup is gonna hold up tomorrow :-)

  • FAR-ISL Dual Meet 2011 Teaser

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    FAR-ISL Dual Meet 2011 television teaser here courtesy of Kringvarp Føroya. Looking forward to a hopefully packed swimming pool in Klaksvík tomorrow evening at 17:30 GMT/UTC, and a lot of viewers online, for instance on www.swimmersdaily.com/live :-)

  • Olympic medallist Cassie Patten retires from swimming

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    Olympic 10k bronze medallist Cassie Patten has announced here retirement from the sport via Twitter. Read the BBC. Here below she’s with Olympic silver medallist Keri-Anne Payne at the Beijing Olympics.

  • A bit about the 2011 FAR-ISL Dual Meet

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    This Saturday evening the 8th of October at 17:30 GMT, we the Faroese will be the host of the 3rd annual dual meet between Faroe Islands and Iceland, featuring some of the best swimmers from both countries. It is a 2 hour televised event, quite impressive if I may say so myself, with red carpets…

  • Yes, FINA preparing live streams from all World Cup legs

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    See live streaming schedule here on fina.org and go here to see the actual FINA TV player. Looks like they are going to broadcast all World Cup events, starting with the World Cup leg in Dubai this weekend “in all countries except: Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Russia, Hungary, Sweden, France, Romania, Croatia, Georgia, Sweden, Middle East,…

  • Another good day in Faroese swimming

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    Today it is confirmed that a Danish TV crew will join us at the World Cup leg in Stockholm, follow Pál there and then come back with us to the Faroe Islands, to film how he lives and trains in his hometown Vágur. He’s had the competing channel TV2 visit him in Vágur before, but…

  • The Stockholm 2011 World Cup startlist is ready

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    Exciting stuff, our guy Pál Joensen will be competing against Paul Biedermann in the 400 free, and is the favorite in the 1500. Other interesting names are for instance Geoff Huegill and Eamon Sullivan from Australia, Therese Alshammar and Stefan Nystrand from Sweden, Ingvild Snildal and Alexander Dale Oen from Norway, David Verraszto and Zjuzsanna…