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Courtesy of Thomas ‘The Gladiator’ Noblett and Peter & Bubbles at the Strel Swimming Montenegro Vacation. Research after research has looked at the reasons for happy and unhappy marriages. One study reports the health and attitude of the husband plays a major role in marriage bliss while other studies confirm the adage, “Happy wife, happy […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. She has swum throughout the world, but never deep inside the Amazon region. But SBR Sports swimmer Lexie Kelly from Newport Beach, California is having the time of her life in the 30 km Rio Negro Challenge Amazonia, swimming with fresh water dolphins and meeting the people of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Few open water swimmers have carried themselves with a competitive fire and dignity as Thomas Lurz did throughout his career. The two-time Olympic medalist announced his retirement today in Würzburg, Germany, surprising many throughout the sport. Not only did Lurz retire as one of the best open water swimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mike Humphreys is certainly persistent and passionate. He is currently training for his fifth attempt of the English Channel, scheduled for this summer. Humphreys splits his time between Seattle and Atlanta as he balances his swimming goals with being a father of three and a Microsoft manager in Xbox
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers face unique forms of injuries that other endurance athletes do not. There is everything from occasional shark wounds (Mike Spalding and Charlotte Bryne) to lengthy hospital stays due to jellyfish stings (Chloë McCardel and Kim Chambers). But the more likely injury are related to chafing. There
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A rōnin was a samurai with no lord or master during the feudal period (1185–1868) of Japan. A samurai became masterless for various reasons including due to the death or fall of his master. In modern Japanese usage, rōnin – or a wandering samurai – also describes an individual
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “They were down, but they came back,” reported Donna DeVarona, an ABC-TV reporter at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, about the American women’s 400m freestyle relay. “They had a winning attitude. [They] reached inside…” That attitude and will to win and be a great teammate has carried Wendy Boglioli
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Courtesy of Robert Kovacik from the NBC4 News in Seal Beach, California. The Southern California beach that Lynne Cox and Penny Dean help make famous and which the Sea Monkeys and many others currently use for swimming and surfing has now joined places like South Africa and Australia on the Great White Shark watch list.
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This weekend, Nejib Belhedi began his second attempt to replicate his unprecedented 20 km swim across the Kerkennah – Sfax Channel in 1991. In order to attract attention to the long-range prediction that Kerkennah may submerge under rising seas, Belhedi made his second attempt on the Oued Ellouza tide.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Very few swimmers head home when they swim across the Strait of Gibraltar. Among those few channel swimmers since 1928, only one solo swimmer was a woman. Nadia El Bahtane became the first Moroccan woman to complete a solo crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar yesterday. The Rabat native
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