Just a photo taken at the 2009 Faroese (Short Course) Championships. If I’m not mistaken, the model will be swimming at the upcoming 2013 Nordic Junior Championships.
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Turkey labels swimming goggles worn during protests ‘weapons’
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A Turkish court has ruled that swimming goggles and other protective equipment used by protesters during this year’s mass street demonstrations were “weapons”, local media reported on Friday.
Demonstrators armed themselves with home-made gear such as masks made of plastic bottles, motorbike helmets and goggles to protect themselves from tear gas fired by riot police during the protests that gripped the country in June.
But an Istanbul court ruled on Thursday that such items could be classified as weapons in a case against 23 people who joined the action against government plans to build on the city’s Gezi park.
It said that the suspects had the clear intention of invading the park, clashing with police and destroying public property.
“They had not gone to the Gezi Park to swim, since there is no swimming pool there,” newspapers quoted the court ruling as saying.
(Image courtesy of Eser Karadağ, CC BY-ND 2.0)
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Nordic Junior & Pre-senior Championships 2013 coming up
This weekend 6 – 8 December 2013, the Faroe Islands Swimming Association will host the annual Nordic Junior & Pre-senior Championships, in the main swimming pool in our capitol Tórshavn. See the invitation, njs2013.org and LiveTiming.se. I’m pretty sure that I will be commentating for our national broadcasting company Kringvarp Føroya, and that the live stream hopefully will be available also outside of the Faroe Isles. More to come.
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Italian promo for the Herning 2013 European SC Champs
Nice to see the Italians getting excited too :-)
Intro EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIP SHORT COURSE from NUOTO LIVORNO Channel on Vimeo.
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SWIM ACROSS SYDNEY project 2014
“A lifestyle documentary highlighting the swimming facilities around Sydney by Graeme St John as he attempts to swim one lap in 40 different pools in one day.”
SWIM ACROSS SYDNEY project 2014 from TREVOR THOMAS on Vimeo.
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Maddy’s Olympic dream
“Maddy has a dream to swim in the Olympics. At age eleven she’s already rubbing shoulders with Olympians Nicole Livingstone, Linley Frame and Ash Delaney. With tips from these swimmers, she’s sure to be well on her way to achieving her goal.”
Maddy’s Olympic dream from ABC Open Sunraysia on Vimeo.
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Annual Thanksgiving Day Polar Bear Dip
“Van Dykes take a swim in Golden Pond”
Annual Thanksgiving Day Polar Bear Dip from Larry Van Dyke on Vimeo.
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British Swimming’s Swansea and Stirling training centres to close at the end of 2013
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The Intensive Training Centres (ITCs) in Swansea and Stirling will shut after governing body British Swimming’s Olympic budget for Rio 2016 was cut.
UK Sport reduced funding by £4m after Britain’s swimmers failed to reach a target of five medals at London 2012.
Stockport’s ITC shut in February, but bases in Loughborough and Bath, which house more elite swimmers, are safe.
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Australia’s swim-with-whales tourism more lucrative than Japanese harpooning operations
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Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the sub-Antarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling.
Until now, the Japanese “scientific” hunt, which kills minkes, was thought to harpoon whales that lived almost exclusively in the Antarctic.
But a satellite tracking program on dwarf minke whales, the focus of growing reef tourism, followed one nicknamed Spot deep into the Southern Ocean before its tag expired. Asked if these whales could be taken by the whalers, CSIRO environmental scientist Matt Curnock said: “We are very concerned about that, yes.
“In tourism, they are worth many millions of dollars more than they are in the Japanese whale-meat market.”
(Image courtesy of Heath Powell, CC BY-SA 2.0)