Category: Competition
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Britta Steffen won’t cut her hair until after London 2012
Interesting interview here on Welt Am Sonntag, where Steffen says that she will let her hair grow up to the Olympics, only cutting the tips as a good luck charm. She hopes to do good at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships, to prove that she is still to be reckoned with, but has her absolute…
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Shanghai 2011 will be broadcasted LIVE on Dubai Sports
Don’t know how far that TV channel reaches, but some of us have fond memories of watching it in Dubai :-) FINA from Hisham Ramadan on Vimeo.
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Highlights from the Faroese championships
Segment on Faroese national TV, Monday the 23rd of May after the Faroese Short Course Championships. I have for the first time ever tried to add closed captioning to the video, which was hard and tedious. And yes, I am the commentator screaming stupidly when the Faroese 50 meter female record is broken by a…
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Szczecin 2011 is coming along nicely
The Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships will be the biggest sports event organised in Poland in 2011, costing about 1 million euro plus the brand new “Floating Arena” venue. Swedish website simma.nu/se visited the venue last weekend, posting photos and sounding very positive about the outlooks.
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Another successful Faroese championships
Faroese swimmers broke 13 national records and 22 junior records at the short course championships this weekend, compared to 7 national records and 21 junior records last year, and 7 national records and 13 junior records in 2009. National star Pál Joensen won 13 gold medals and 3 silver medals in total, including the best…
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Europe wants its own Olympics
IOC member Patrick Hickey is proposing a “European Games”, thought to have backing of IOC president Jacques Rogge, and likely to be put to a vote in November, with the support of 47 of the 49 European National Olympic Committees. The reason being that other continents already have their own Games with Pan American Games,…
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Faroese keep on setting national records
Faroe Islands hasn’t seen the same stagnation in records now after the supersuits were banned, as most of the rest of the swimming world. Since the ban in January 2010 the Faroese swimmers have set 42 Faroese records and 127 junior records in 2010, plus Pál Joensen’s Nordic record of 14:56.90 in the 1500 meter…