Category: Swimmer’s Daily
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Yippee, my first story in Bulgarian media
So yesterday I got in contact with Dr. Ivan Tsanov, Secretary General of the Association of the Bulgarian swimmers and Editor-in-Chief of the number one Bulgarian website about swimming, www.bgswim.info with about 15000 daily visits. He asked me about Faroese swimming, and has now been so kind to translate my somewhat hurried response and put…
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Sorry about the site being so slow these days
It was running fine with way heavier traffic two weeks ago, and then it went to a crawl this week. I contacted my web host when it died totally on Friday, it came up again, and now, well, now we’ll just see if it ever gets up to speed again. If not, then it is…
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Time to nominate your favorite swimming blog
The annual About Swimming Readers’ Choice Awards is on, including categories ‘swimsuits’, ‘goggles’, ‘handpaddles’, ‘training fins’, ‘on-line or brick and mortar swim shops’, ‘swimming twitter feed’ and (most important) ‘swimming blog’. You can nominate your swimming favorites from January 18th through February 15th, vote from February 22nd though March 21st, and then see the winners…
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Our top ten stories from 2011
2011 has been a fun year here on Swimmer’s Daily, with increasing visit numbers since the sort-of-relaunch in March. Site focus is as the motto says ‘a fast fix blog about swimming’, that hopefully can provide readers with short bursts of fun and/or interesting swim-related content, as a break for instance between tedious training. Preferably…
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Shameless promotion of Faroese knitwear (and women)
Warning, this post has absolutely nothing to do with swimming, but everything with where I and my brother Bartal come from. You might have heard about the sweater in the Danish award winning TV series ‘Forbrydelsen’ (‘The Killing’), it is Faroese from Guðrun & Guðrun, while the knitwear in this video is designed by Jóhanna…
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Slow day while this storm passes
Funny weather guys storm.no send their regards on Facebook: ‘Faroe Islands, hang in there!’ Already getting dark at 1400 hours, dark humor also from Faroese on Facebook “Everything above 40 meters per second is called ‘clean-up day’!” (because of the public notice that people should tidy up and fasten everything that will otherwise fly). Or…
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Swimmer’s Daily takes a tumble
I sort of pulled the plug myself, deleting another site that turned out to be connected to this one. Dreamhost support to the rescue :-S
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Danish Open live on LiveTiming.se and Swimmer’s Daily
Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals…