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With Adam Walker‘s nearly 17-hour conquest of the Molokai Channel along an unprecedented route that torturously took him along the southern coast of Oahu yesterday, the British swimmer joins the growing group of marathon swimmers who are closest to the exclusive goal of the Oceans Seven. With a brutal encounter with Portuguese man o war […]
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FINA made its ruling on the controversy over the marathon swimming finalists. As a result, Benjamin Schulte of Guam accepted the invitation to compete in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km. Coached by Dennis Cotterell and Brian King on Gold Coast of Australia, 16-year-old Schulte will not only be the youngest swimmer by more than a
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The Olympic marathon swim and the Olympic marathon swim both showcase some of the best and fastest endurance athletes in the world. While the marathon run has a long history and (the men’s race) is featured on last day of the Olympic Games, the marathon swim was introduced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) website is now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The IMSHOF site will also soon be made available in Italian, French, German and Japanese. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was established in 1961 to recognize the marathon swimmers throughout the world and governed by an
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The Pacific Vortex Challenge (PVC) is an ultra-marathon ocean relay race from Hawaii to Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, California, created by Richard Pain, an Australian filmmaker, environmentalist and open water swimmer. The Pacific Vortex Challenge is a match race between two 8-member relay teams swimming 2,500 miles across the largest body of water
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The Open Water Vacation Giveaway is provided courtesy of Open Water Source. Winners will be randomly selected from among those who register in advance for the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on the RMS Queen Mary between September 21st – 23rd. Four vacation giveaways will be given away among those
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The feats and drive of open water swimmers across the famed 26-mile (42 km) Molokai Channel just keeps going up and up. Since Keo Nakama completed the first crossing in 1961, the channel has challenged some of the best and hardiest swimmers in the world. Stephen Redmond was the latest swimmer to experience an epic
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Find out from Gold Medal Mel, where Chloe Sutton is now. Watch the 2008 Olympic open water swimmer’s latest video here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Joe Dowd announced the annual July 4th Firecracker 8000. “It’s time again to brave Lake Natoma…all of it,” he encourages those who wish to swim 4.5 miles upstream in chilly water in northern California. But this year, Mother Nature has taken some of the chill and current off the agenda for Dowd and the rest
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The Olympic athletes are supported by a number of staff, from coaches and physiologists to translators and physicians. The pride in which the support staff takes in their role is visible and palpable. They wear their country’s uniform and colors just as proudly as the athletes themselves. They regularly go beyond the call of duty,
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