Category: Training
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Danish swimmers on small bikes in Leadville
The Danish Olympic team going for a bike ride at 3000 meters altitude in Leadville, Colorado, judging by their faces very early in the morning. Paulus Wildeboer looking sceptical at the BMX-size bike that he got, and Bjarnason apparently giving up on the idea entirely :-)
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How not to ruin a swimming prodigy
Interesting article here on The Wall Street Journal, on how Missy Franklin’s coach Todd Schmitz has focused on fun and avoiding burnout, ever since she started training on his team at the age of 7. Many coaches with a prodigy in their stable would choose to increase her workouts to test her potential. But in…
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Canadian Olympians get a feel for world record pace
‘The Need For Speed’, a few weeks after booking their ticket to London for the 2012 Games, the Canadian Olympic Swim team reunited as a group to train in Phoenix, Arizona. SwimCANweb.tv was onsite to capture video of the team training. Via Swimmming Canada on Facebook
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Norwegian swimmers struck by strike
Returning from the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, coach Finn Zachariassen and swimmer Sindri Þór Jakobsson came to closed doors at their Bergen base, all municipality swimming pools closed because of strike. This is of course a major crisis, with Jakobsson vying for an Olympic spot at the Dutch Open in Amsterdam in two weeks.…
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Behold, maybe the geekiest post ever about Pál Joensen
My brother the geologist putting Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason on a special assignment, to find a Kaibab Limestone while visiting Crand Canyon. I understand they succeeded, only to me it still looks like just a rock. Off our Faroese site.
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Denmark extends its contract with coach Wildeboer
The Danish Swimming Federation announced yesterday that they have made a new 4-year agreement with national coach Paulus Wildeboer, to be head coach of the National Training Center (NTC) in Bellahøj, Copenhagen up until and including the Rio 2016 Olympics. His former job as national head coach will on his request be split in two,…
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9News segment from the Danish Olympic squad in Leadville
Nice, a video here on 9News featuring Lotte Friis and coach Paulus Wildeboer, with glimpses of the rest of the squad at altitude in Leadville, Colorado, including Pál Joensen and the Tunesian Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli. Read more here on 9News
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CC photo #139: Pál and Jón at the Kalev Spa
Pál Joensen getting instructions from his coach Jón Bjarnason at the Kalev Spa in Tallinn, Estonia, back in January 2009. You’ve got to love that sign – “amateur swimming” – giggle :-)
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CC photo #138: Rein Haljand and Pál Joensen at the Kalev Spa
Pál Joensen being instructed by Rein Haljand, Professor of Kinesiology at Tallinn University in Estonia. This from when we visited them in Estonia, back in January 2009. Pool is the Kalev Spa in Tallinn.