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La Asociación Amigos de la Ría de Navia offers a fun game (called the La Apuesta in Spanish) around its Copa Asturias and its Descenso de la Ría de Navia that are held in northern Spain in the Navia River. Before the two races, fans, spectators, family and friends can predict the male and female […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Angel Yanagihara, a biochemist and researcher at the University of Hawaii’s Department of Tropical Medicine has prepared for the worse. If Diana Nyad gets stung by box jellyfish or Portuguese man o war during her 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, Dr. Yanagihara will be able to identify
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Olympian Damian Blaum of Argentina has had a long career in the professional marathon swimming community. He has swum all over the world: *Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli (36 km in Italy) in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 *Marathon de Cancún (15 km in Mexico) in 2012 *Santa Fe – Corondo (57 km in Argentina) in
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Swimmers from Argentina have won the Traversée international du lac St-Jean 13 times since 1955. Swimmers from the United States of America have also won 13 times since 1955. The winners of the Traversée international du lac St-Jean, who have competed in difference distances, over the years include the following: 1955 – Jacques Amyot (Canada)
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Becca Mann, the youngest Olympic Trials finalist (in various events) and a top American open water swimmer, will head over to Honolulu this year. Mann will try to stem the Aussie tide and win the perenially tough Waikiki Roughwater Swim. But FINIS’ Luane Rowe of Australia is no going out without s fight. The four-time
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ishin denshin (以心伝心), the Japanese concept of mutual understanding and communication, is playing itself out during Diana Nyad’s 103-mile attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Her business partner at Brava Body and her chief handler Bonnie Stoll have forged an ideal relationship between themselves. Stoll, formerly a world-class
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Doug Stanley and his team at Ridgeline Entertainment are the people who are enabling Ben Lecomte to realize his dream to not only swim across the Pacific Ocean, but also to bring the day-to-day drama to the world in a unique technological package. Out in the middle of the Earth’s largest body of water, Stanley
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad had three individuals from Miami (Dr. E. Willis Weyers, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Fellow in Anesthesiology and Critical Care), Mike Letter, P.A. University of Miami Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, and Dr. Gabriel Sarah, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Senior Resident in Anesthesiology) on her escort boats.
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Diana Nyad Gets Stung And Stung Again Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Diana Nyad is 20 hours into her swim. Despite four major jellyfish stings, she still manages to stay strong keep in tune to her rhythm with her mental playlist of 65 songs, 5 hours and 15 minutes. Sting 1: A Flower Hat
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The stars are out for the BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland with US$10,000 on the line for the first-place male and female finishers with a total pool of prizes amounts to US$28,000. Lead by Olympic marathon swimming gold medalist Eva Risztov of Hungary, the women’s field includes 2 Olympic marathon swimmers, FINA 10km Marathon Swimming
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