Category: Competition
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This event will be tough to beat
Bravo Shanghai, these championships were almost flawless, and easily the best arranged (of the few) that I’ve ever encountered. The Olympics are special anyhow I guess, but the Spanish must be really worrying about living up to this in 2013, with their mañana-culture.
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We’re in the final (again)
An Olympic qualification for a Faroese still living and training on the hard rock islands, that is a first ever. A new Nordic record also, now counting two in two events :-)
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Gone sightseeing
So we decided to go visit the ‘bottle opener’, the Shanghai World Financial Center, with a Sky Arena at 94th floor (423m), a Sky Walk with glass roof at 97th floor (439m) and a Sky Walk with glass floor at 100th floor (474m). It was nice, hot and sunny, and the smog had lifted for…
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Don’t fight the Faroese National Broadcasting Corporation
So now I’m in the dog house for sending a request out to the Faroese media, that they should clear any interview with us the team around Pál, rather than find him on Facebook or where ever, exploiting that he doesn’t like to say no. A request that tabloid news portal Vágaportalurin chose to put…
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This was the fun event
Now comes serious business, a possible qualification time for the London Olympics :-S
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We are in the final
Yet again Pál and Jón amaze me. You cannot begin to understand how amateurish the rest of us are, down to the point where we had to have our T-shirts printed here in Shanghai, because nobody had time before we left. Pure guts and brains.
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Second impression, the Chinese are really nice
I haven’t met an unpleasant person in Shanghai, period. I’ve had teenage classmates robbed in broad daylight outside Macy’s on Broadway, a friend attacked for just walking home from a party in Copenhagen, and experienced the French in general in Paris. Shanghai Pudong district is nothing like that.
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Alexander Dale Oen mourns victims of anti-Islam attacker
Norwegian swimmer, Alexander Dale Oen, mourned the victims of the recent tragedy in Oslo and Utøya in Norway. He set the fastest time (59.37) in the 100 breaststroke semi-finals at the XIV FINA World Championships in Shanghai today. [Music: “Death of Aase” by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg]