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“I think the food is wonderful,” said Stephen Redmond in a traditional Japanese inn facing the Tsugaru Channel in northern Honshu. “But I don’t want to eat anything that I am not used to before I swim.” “Can you pass the bread and cheese?” he asked to his friend and trainer Noel Browne. In addition […]
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When we observed Darren Miller attack the Tsugaru Channel, it definitely was a battle between man and nature. Mother Nature was Goliath, the heavyweight with the upper hand, while Miller was a flyweight facing an insurmountable bout. The swells running fast from the Sea of Japan were generated from strong cross winds running perpendicular and
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At 91 years old, Roy Webster was still cheering on friends and family as they participated in the annual Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim. Webster, a local orchard owner, began the event 70 years ago when he challenged himself to swim across the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon at Hood River. Today close to 500
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The 8th annual Sheko Challenge and world’s only Trisolothon will be the first sports event in Hong Kong where zero plastic water bottles will be used for the athletes. Filtered water will be supplied by Life Solutions in BAMBOA’s re-useable bamboo cups (shown below), meaning swimmers will get cold, fresh water without leaving waste plastic
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) website is now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. The IMSHOF site will also soon be made available in French and German. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was established in 1961 to recognize the marathon swimmers throughout the world and is governed by
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Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida, Japan’s two representatives at the Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim at the London Games, will receive a nice send-off at this weekend’s Japan Open in Tateyama. The 4 km relay and 10 km solo swim is the most competitive open water swim among the hundreds of events in Japan. One
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“I couldn’t believe the swimmers just grabbed their gel packs and then left them in the water,” recalled more than a few observers of marathon swims. “I would have thought there is a rule against leaving gel packs and cups in the water.” While most of the gel packs and plastic cups are picked up
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The 65th annual Hatsujima Atami Relays (第６５回初島・熱海間団体競泳大会） is a long-running 3-person 12 km open water swimming relay held south of Tokyo from the island of Hatsujima to Atami Sun Beach in Shizuoka Prefecture on the mainland of Honshu, the main island of Japan. The event is supported by the Ministry of Education and is always held
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The race to become the first to achieve the Oceans Seven is heating up…from different perspectives: Man vs. Woman. A former world-class swimmer vs. a former rugby player. Speed vs. Acclimatization. Ireland vs. Australia vs. USA. While Ireland’s Stephen Redmond remains in the driver’s seat in the Oceans Seven, Australia’s Penny Palfrey and Americans Michelle
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Famed Utah marathon swimmer James Jonsson will attempt a two-way 38-mile (61 km) lengthwise crossing of the Bear Lake on the Utah and Idaho border in July at an elevation of 5,920 feet (1,804m). The thin air will accentuate the cool water and air temperatures and will most definitely aerobically stress Jonsson’s body in ways
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