Doping at Oyrabakki

Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.

On Saturday FÍF held a youth camp at Oyrabakki. It is part of an effort to bring young athletes together across the clubs, and to give them sporting experiences different from what they get day to day. This time the event was open to all young people over 15 who do athletics.

Unfortunately we picked a weekend with a great deal of other activity on the calendar. Illness and cancellations on top of that meant only 10 young people attended this otherwise exciting youth camp. But those 10 first got an exciting and different training session in taekwondo. The plan was for young Høgni Kunoy Dávason, who founded Taekwondofelagið í Eysturoy when he was just 10 years old, to lead the session, but his chronic lung condition meant he had to be in Denmark that weekend.

Instead his father, Dávur Kunoy, and his cousin, Dávid á Lakjuni, ran the session, which lasted just under two hours and ended with an exciting bout between Guðrið and Sjøfn.

Unna Ró let out her pent-up rage and kicked like a horse

Guðrið also had to let off steam, and tried with all her might to kick Sjøfn in the head in a very exciting bout that ended in a draw

In the afternoon Jarvin Feilberg Hansen from the Faroese Confederation of Sports (ÍSF) came to talk about doping and doping control in the Faroe Islands. ÍSF is doing all it can to get the Faroese sporting community to take doping and doping control seriously. This is both to highlight how dangerous and unsporting doping is, and to protect athletes by informing them about the use of prescribed medication.

Jarvin explained things very well, and the young people listened so keenly that the swimming time was cut by half

We ended the day by jumping into the pool at Skúlin við Streymin, which seems well suited to camps like this, with access to a gym hall, a kitchen, exciting common areas, beautiful countryside and, of course, the swimming hall.

The participants agreed that it had been good and exciting, and that camps like this should be held again. We will therefore soon set a date for and organise a new training camp.

Thanks for this time, and we’ll kick ass again later. From left: Dávid, Maria, Oddvør, Hans, Rigmor, Unna Ró, Annika, Teresa, Guðrið, Sjøfn, Elin, Hervør and Dávur