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The Global Open Water Swimming Conference is part of a three-day open water swimming extravaganza will offer 2 award ceremonies, book signings, an open water swimming safety panel, a marine artwork exhibition, inspirational and educational presentations by luminaries of the sport, and open water swims that replicate the Olympic Games triathlon swim leg and the […]
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Niek Kloots and Richard Broer reported at Openwaterswimming Europe that the Dutch Ladies First (Margot Stenveld (23), Desirée Emmen (19), Janneke Harmsen-Bakker (35), Jasmijn Ruijgrok (18), Gemma Middendorp (31) and Linda Hoogendam (28)) broke the recently set record by an American team by more than 30 minutes (18 hours 22 minutes vs. 18 hours 59
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Ridgeline Entertainment, producers of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte from Japan to California will test its development of SmackDab today at 11 am Los Angeles time. SmackDab is the new social viewing platform for Facebook which Lecomte and Ridgeline Entertainment will use to interact with their online followers around the globe while they are
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Ron Jacks, 3-time Olympian and coach of 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Richard Weinberger (shown on left), and Swimming Canada CEO Pierre Lafontaine, opened up the 2012 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships today with a 3-hour coaching seminar. The races begin tomorrow and extend through August 19th in Welland, Canada. The newest international competition
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After his triumphant conquests at the 2012 London Olympics, Michael Phelps signed a deal to appear on the Golf Channel reality series The Haney Project — and reportedly to do open water swimming with Great White Sharks in South Africa. Eileen O’Neill, group president of Discovery and TLC that owns the wildly successful Shark Week
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Eleanor Studley Hurd was an American swimmer and an early pioneering open water swimmer. In 1929, the Smith College alumnus become the first woman to swim the Hellespont between Europe and Asia. Studley swam the Hellespont in 80 minutes, beating two other female competitors and becoming the first woman to complete it. Known also as
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some gorgeous photos of the Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine are shown in the links below: Metro – of the female marathon swimmers ABC – check out the taping around the transponder Daily Mail – the course and spectators flickr – of the race officials Copyright © 2012
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After the Olympic marathon swim, gold medalist Ous Mellouli famously described the swim as “hell…there is no other way to describe it. The last 100 meters, as I lifted my head to look at the finish line, my shoulder was so heavy, my legs were tight, my lungs were burning, my whole system was in
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The Longest Swim-Sizzle Reel from Ridgeline on Vimeo. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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From Italy to Thailand and several locations in the UK, Coningham-Rolls Swimming Holidays offers a variety of luxury swimming tours. And the tours are expanding northwards towards the Arctic Circle. This September, a 6-day swimming tour of the stunning Lofoten Islands in Norway begins. The surrounding sea is optimal for open water swimming with a
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