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The men’s Olympic marathon swim gold medalists are quite remarkable. First there was Maarten van der Weijden who won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not only was his athletic victory dramatic, so too was his life story. van der Weijden remains the only Olympic gold medalist in history to have captured gold […]
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With the conclusion of the Olympic marathon swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were several surprises and positive outcomes that resulted. 1. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia (1:49:55.1) powered to an Olympic victory, giving Tunisia and Africa its first Olympic marathon swimming gold. His participation is also adequate evidence that open water swimming does
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Oussama Mellouli made two communities happy with his gold medal marathon swim victory in the Serpentine today: his native country of Tunisia and his adopted USC (University of Southern California) family in America. His brilliant strategy throughout the 10,000m swim combined with his powerful strokes on the last two loops led to a dominant victory
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Ous Mellouli Wins The Olympic Marathon Swim WOWSA, Serpentine, London. In a brilliant strategy that played to his strengths, Ous Mellouli swam away from the field to capture his second Olympic gold medal in today’s Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine. Thomas Lurz captured the silver with young Richard Weinberger holding off Spyros Gianniotis for
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Ivan Enderica Ochoa (#23) is Ecuador’s man at today’s Olympic marathon swim. He trains in Cuenca high up at 2,400 meters in the Andean Mountains. He will swim proudly and quickly in the six 1.6km loops around the Serpentine. Many of the parents and close friends of the 25 male swimmers are gathering in a
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As one of the Olympic marathon swimming gold medal favorites, Greece’s Spyros Gianniotis is cool, calm and collected. But his parents are nervous. His father is Greek, but his mother is English. “It is going to be Spyros and Thomas [Lurz],” quietly predicts his mother … as do other pundits. “It’s going to be a
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Yasunari Hirai is Japan’s entrant in today’s Olympic marathon swim at the Serpentine. The young man has been swimming throughout Japan, in America, in Australia and in the professional marathon swimming circuit to gain expertise and experience in open water swimming. He should be in the mix for the first half in what is expected
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Alex Meyer is a member of an exclusive club: Olympic athletes from Harvard University. The Harvard graduate will be #20 in today’s Olympic marathon swim final starting at 12 noon GMT. The race should be blazing fast. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Another gorgeous day in London for the men’s Olympic marathon swim. Julien Sauvage of France is excited and positioned themselves early at the Serpentine to cheer on their hero at today’s Olympic marathon swimming final. Girlfriend Laura is excited and a little nervous, but is very proud of him regardless of the outcome. Laura’s parents,
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The Olympic marathon swim is being filmed from many different angles and is an improvement over the television production of open water swimming from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. One innovation that is being used at the Serpentine is the use of the CableCam. The CableCam is often used in land-based sports that are played in
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