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DOVER, English Michael Read MBE, President of the Channel Swimming Association, reminds people of the year 1962, the only year in the past 50 when the weather was so bad that there was not a single successful swim across the English Channel that year. Michael Jennings, a two-time English Channel swimmer, recalls, “Amazingly there were […]
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While their ultra-marathon swimming colleagues are tackling an 88K swim down the Paraná River, the second stage of the shorter FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup will be held in Viedma, Argentina this Saturday, February 4th. The tough-nosed competition will feature 19 of the world’s top women and 24 of the men’s top men. After
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While the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup moves to Viedma, Argentina this Saturday, the ultra-marathon professional swimmers on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit will be in for a long day on Sunday, February 5th. A week after they competed in a down-to-the-wire 57K race from Santa Fe to Coronda, the marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Source will look at all the 2012 Olympic hopefuls and dark horses in the series of perspectives on this year’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the London Olympics. Fans of the sport know well gold medal favorites like Keri-Anne Payne, Martina Grimaldi, Thomas Lurz and Spyridon Gianniotis,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Discovery Channel’s Shark Week describes ten places around the world where sharks can be readily seen and are always around. 1. Cocos Island in Costa Rica with loads of hammerheads and whitetip reef sharks. 2. Isla Mujeres in Mexico with pods of giant plankton-feeding whale sharks. 3. Great Barrier
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When will JetLevs be used in open water swimming and triathlon competitions? Our guess is that it will not be that far off. Paddle boards, kayaks, Boston Whalers, canoes and watercraft of all kinds are used to escort swimmers and monitor open water swimming competitions around the world. Occasionally, aerial viewing (to enhance the safety
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Olympic swimming heroes and heroines have occasionally turned to open water swimming in their post-Olympic careers. Shane Gould, the five-time Australian Olympic medalist, runs the Devil of a Swim in Tasmania and continues to be a passionate advocate for learning how to swim, especially for those who live near the ocean or on island nations.
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The world has more than 4,000 sanctioned open water swimming clinics, camps, tours, races and events in at least 158 countries. The sport is growing like never before – and usually under the radar of national governing bodies and the mass media. A list of some of the world’s greatest, most popular or challenging open
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