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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Race Director Merritt Johnson Morris explained, “I didn’t get to see the finish between 17-year-old Nick Vargas and [veteran] Alex Kostich, but I heard people asking about who this 17-year-old was.” Without a doubt, more people will hear about Vargas over the next Olympic quadrennial. Nick Vargas has been […]
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Hank Wise is organizing a marathon swim-run around the fishing piers of Orange County, California. The Catalina Channel swimmer explains, “Get on the Big Red Bus with your goggles in hand. Who said dress up party? Just arrive, survive and thrive at the best Sunday Morning Swim Party Ever.” On August 26th at 8 am
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This was an actual discussion that Luke Tipple and Steven Munatones had with the crew aboard the Voyager during Diana Nyad’s attempted swim from Cuba to Florida. Situation: Dire and foreboding as a squall was heading closer to Nyad and her crew Time: Late at night Position: 40 miles
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Tomi Stefanovski is a top professional marathon swimmer and coach. The 41-year-old is the oldest competitive athlete on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix and FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup. Among his swims from 1996 to 2011 include the following races: • Ohrid Marathon (30 km in Macedonia) in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998,
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Andrea Volpini has been a fixture on the professional marathon swimming circuit for over 10 years now. The 34-year-old policeman from Italy has taken time off to complete in over 40 races. His decade-long career includes the following marathon swims: • Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli (36 km in Italy) in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad has a team of four experienced shark divers who are responsible for protecting her against curious sharks. Led by Luke Tipple, the quartet of knights in white armor include Nico Gazzale, Matteo Gazzale and Andy Olday. Their weapon of choice was a pole with a golf ball
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Irene van der Laan is an interior designer by trade, decorating and advising clients on how to make their homes and offices brighter and more organized in a way that reflects their personality. But Irene’s heart is geared towards the outdoors – specifically the open water. A partial list of her open water swims from
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Alexander Studzinski is a top professional marathon swimmer with a particularly prolific career. The 29-year-old from Germany has been in the top ranks of the professional circuit for year. In addition to shorter invitational races that have taken him from England to Brazil, he focuses his summer on the longer races. Among his 50 of
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Diana Nyad continues to swim under the majesty of the sky, even if she is facing difficulties at sea level. Fortunately, the number of box jellyfish dramatically fell on the second night of her swim between Cuba and Florida. While the skies above her showered her with streaks of lightening bolts and howls of thunder,
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In the 1960s, Captain Ransom Arthur, M.D. encouraged adults to swim for exercise. His idea caught on quickly, especially among 47 athletes who participated in the first U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in 1970. By 1973, Captain Arthur’s vision had drawn the attention of the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) that governed amateur sports in the United
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