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Interwet is a slang term used for content on the Internet and online social networks that pertains to aquatic activities, events or individuals covering topics from swimming to sailing. With products and services like GPS and Spot Tracker, individuals can follow swimmers and triathlons while onshore, at home or in the office via the Interwet. […]
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Paolo Eros Cerizzi is an adventure swimmer from Italy who previously swam across the Strait of Messina in Sicily, Italy wearing handcuffs. He has also done open water swims butterfly in Italy, but he will use a modified butterfly kick when he make an unprecedented attempt to swim the one-mile Flowers Sea Swim in the
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Penny Palfrey will return to the site of one of her greatest adventures – the Cayman Islands – this June. She will participate in one of the world’s greatest open water swimming events, the Flowers Sea Swim. The last time Penny Palfrey was in the Cayman Islands, she swam 68 miles between Little Cayman Island
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Travel photographer Walter Bibikow captured the Bondi Beach and pool in a photo that needs no explanation to swimmers. The Bondi Icebergs Baths have been a landmark of Bondi Beach in New South Wales, Australia for over 100 years. The 50 metre pool and club is home to the Bondi Icebergs Club where winter swimming
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With the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming under his belt, Scott Coleman is tied for 3rd on the All-Time Oceans Seven quest. He now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with marathon swimming stalwarts such as James Pittar, Kevin Murphy, Forrest Nelson, Bula Chowdhury Chakraborty, Tom Hecker and Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica. Scott has traveled the world accomplishing
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Janel Jorgensen McArdle, President of Swim Across America, made a splash as a teenager winning two gold medals at the Pan American Games and silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in South Korea. At Stanford University, she set four American records, was a 27-time All American and won 15 NCAA championship titles. After her
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Swimmers do it. Runners do it. Basketball players do it, and many other Olympic athletes give it a college try too. Coaches love it and it helps them win tournaments, meets and games. Elite athletes from around the world understand the American collegiate system where college athletic and academic scholarships enable talented athletes to receive
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The most recent class of inductees to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame will be honored in Long Beach, California on September 22nd at a formal dinner at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. The multi-national heroes and heroines include: • Larisa Ilchenko (Russia) 2008 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim gold medalist and multi-time
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The Everest Academy in Bangladesh will hold its first international marathon swim this week on March 17th: the 16.1K International Bangla Channel Marathon Swim across the Bangla Channel. In addition to the swimmers who will do the one-way crossing, Lipton Sarkar and English Channel swimmer Milko van Gool (shown on left) from the Netherlands will
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It is never to early to plan ahead in the open water world. With 522 days to go and 12,528 possible hours to prepare, Jamie Patrick announced the 1st annual Myrtle Huddleston Honorary Swim in Lake Tahoe on August 17th 2013. “Ms. Huddleston was the first person to swim the width of Lake Tahoe back
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