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Star Burns Brightly To Make It Safe4Athletes Katherine Star is hosting a SAFE4ATHLETES cocktail party fundraiser at the home of Richard Riordan, the former Mayor of Los Angeles, on June 26th. Star explains the reason for the fundraiser, “For too many years, male and female athletes who have been abused by their coaches – physically, […]
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore described Moore’s Law that predicts the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. While Moore’s Law does not specify exactly how a computer chip gets smaller, cheaper and faster, the well-noted rule of thumb predicts that they have steadily done so and
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Danny Gassaway is an open water swimmer from Oklahoma, about as far away from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as you can get on the North American continent. However, he is driven to enjoy and excel in the sport. This is his story: I competed in mostly every sport imaginable from 6 to 18 years
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Ken Barcinas and Pilar Shimizu won last year’s boy’s and girl’s division at the annual Cocos International Crossing in Guam. The Cocos International Crossing is a 3.52 km channel crossing from the uninhabited Cocos Island to Merizo Pier on the main island of Guam. The race has been held continuously since 1990 and is hosted
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Doug Woodring announced the Oceanic Big Five to celebrate World Oceans Day. “Open water swimmers, surfers, sailors, divers and paddlers have an IOU for the ocean and now it’s time to give back. Get your friends, teams or communities together, and create an ocean clean-up in places that normal beach cleanups might not take you.
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In a recent interview about his future in the sport of swimming, Michael Phelps told Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated, “I’m so sick of the water. Even when I go to the beach with my friends. They’re like, ‘Why won’t you get in?’ And I’m like, ‘Do you have any IDEA how much of my
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The U.S. Coast Guard seeks public input on how best to prevent recreational boating casualties caused by propeller strikes. The Coast Guard, in particular, seeks comments on specific measures to protect recreational boaters in the water near the stern of a recreational vessel. The Coast Guard also seeks additional ideas, specific data, and other facts
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During the 2008 Olympic quadrennial, Russian gold medalist Larisa Ilchenko was unbeatable. The Russian superstar, who will be inducted in the 2012 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame this September 22nd on the Queen Mary, was open water swimming royalty. Ilchenko always won her races dramatically. In anything from 5 km to 10 km in
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The naturally produced hormone irisin helps enable weight loss by converting normal white fat into calorie-burning brown fat in a process called thermogenesis (see research here). Named after the svelte Greek goddess Iris, it is naturally produced during a workout. Jonathan Keats of Wired Magazine writes, “A purified form of irisin could soon become the
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35 women from 21 countries will be fighting it out to be among the top 15 swimmers at the upcoming Olympic marathon swim qualifier in Setubal Bay in Portugal. The following women are entered and ready to battle for the final 15 positions in the Olympic marathon swim in London. No lanes, no lines, no
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