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CC photo #477: The FINA flag in KlaksvÃk
The FINA flag waving outside the public swimming pool in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, during the Faroese Youth Swimming Championships 2013. Yes, it was raining, and yes, it is mighty difficult to get a good photo of a waving flag.
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CC photo #476: Faroese Youth Championships 2013
Scene at the Faroese Youth Championships 2013 – “Meistarastevnan fyri Ung 2013” – in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, this afternoon. Seems like I’m running from event to event these past many days (/weeks/months), so sorry about the site being a bit slow :-)
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Katinka Hosszu sets 2 BSF records during 1st night of prelims
Read Speed Endurance and see results on medley.no
Katinka Hosszu impressed the audience setting two meet records during day one of the Bergen Swim Festival – Alexander Dale Oen memorial in Bergen, Norway. The competition is being swum in short course metres.
Despite it being prelims, and the fact she led both events by a country mile, the Hungarian swim princess went at it with all guns blazing setting a meet record in the 100 meters breaststroke (1:08.98) and the 200 meter freestyle (1:55.35).
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The Race Club: Fast Swimming Techniques – How to Streamline
“In this video on Fast Swimming Techniques, Gary Hall Sr talks about how to perform a correct Streamline. Many Coaches are still teaching the ‘biceps over ears’ method, at the Race Club we believe in a different streamline that will result in 3 different ways the entire body becomes more Streamline. Find out The Race Club way to Streamline and you will find that it is not easy but significantly faster.”
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CC photo #475: Faroese 2011 Youth Swimming Championships Opening Ceremony
Swimmers lined up for the Faroese 2011 Youth Swimming Championships in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands. The 2013 edition starts tonight, so we will be busy-busy with Pál at the Bergen Swim Festival and everything :-)
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Swim stars remember Dale Oen for his friendliness
Olympic gold medalists Cameron van der Burgh, Dániel Gyurta and Olympic silver medalist Michael Jamieson visited Norway’s TV2 this morning, to talk about their relationship with Alexander Dale Oen. See story and video on tv2.no, almost completely in English.
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Ian Thorpe won’t swim Australian Trials
Read for instance ctpost.comSwimming Australia confirmed Friday that the 30-year-old hadn’t entered any races and nominations have closed. The event doubles as the national championships and trials for the Barcelona worlds in July.
Image courtesy of Doha Stadium Plus, CC BY 2.0
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Instabeat promises to track your pulse with a swim goggle head-up display
Remember ButterflEYE, the goggles that measure your heart rate while swimming? Well, that award-winning product has developed into Instabeat, a more streamlined and waterproof head-up monitor that displays instant feedback of your heart rate in your swim goggles, while at the same time tracking other parameters like laps swum and breathing pattern. In the video below, creator Hind Hobeika presents her invention. You can help them get the product on the market by supporting their funding campaign on IndieGogo. See also instabeat.me