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Hollywood can create magic. Movies offer special effects and computer generated images. Television can transport its viewers from their living rooms to anywhere in the world. Modern movie-making technologies and the Internet combined with the drama and uncertainty of human competition makes for compelling television and live streaming. What the TV or online viewer sees […]
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Joe Locke quietly pulled off on an 11 hour 40 minute crossing of Lake Tahoe in the south to north direction yesterday. Most people tackle Lake Tahoe in the opposite direction, but the overall record remains with Dave Kenyon who swam in the north-to-south direction in 9 hours 20 minutes in 1987, although the standard
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The prefecture and city of Osaka in Japan are moving forward with their plans to create a 1-kilometer 12-15m wide and 1.1-1.4m deep pool, called Pool Dotonbori. Scheduled to open in 2015, Pool Dotonbori will feature large spaces for advertising in order to subsidize the largest pool open to the public in a major metropolitan
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Extreme swimmer and filmmaker Jack Bright had to break some bad news to his fellow teammates on their planned relay swim across the Bering Strait. Their Russian ship, the Akademik Schokalskiy, was ready to guide them from the Russian side of the Bering Strait to the American side, but the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame celebrates and commemorates the history and luminaries of the global marathon swimming community. Over the 5 decades of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, the exploits and careers of these luminaries have been maintained in archives that have now been made
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Jamie Patrick of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society certified three successful crossings of Lake Tahoe last weekend: On July 27th, North Channel conqueror Craig Lenning of Denver, Colorado swam in the north to south direction in 11 hours 0 minutes 26 seconds. The following day, Morgan Christian of San Diego, California swam in the south
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Is it just us – or would it not be totally cool to swim the Olympic canoe slalom course? We want to swim with a helmet and knee pads, but we’d like to give the white-water course a try. Thinking out loud, it would be exciting to swim through the gates and navigate the currents
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As open water swimmers anxiously wait for the conditions in the English Channel, Cook Strait, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel and Tsugaru Channel to become calm enough to make an attempt, we are reminded of many instances of the 4-year waits that many Olympic hopefuls undergo. Day after day, month after month, year after year,
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South African poet Mbali Vilakazi penned this poem about fellow countrywoman Natalie du Toit, the famed 2008 Beijing Olympian and amputee. Although the 16th-place finisher in the Olympic marathon swim in 2008 just barely missed out qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics by the slimmest of margins, she will culminate her career at the Paralympic
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The 7th annual Bob Roper Golden Gate Bridge Swim will be held on October 14th. Swimmers jump off a boat at the South Tower of the Golden Gate Bridge and swim 2 miles (3.2km) north, into the cove at Ft. Baker. There are both wetsuit and non-wetsuit divisions in the charity swim. Friends and family
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