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BAT or Brown Adipose Tissue (also known as brown fat) are recently discovered brown-colored cells that consume calories and generate heat while activated by the cold. Considering the amount of time that many open water swimmers spend in the cold water and shivering in temperatures in their swimwear while others are bundled up in warm […]
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Jack Bright‘s documentary, Winter Swimming, is fascinating look at the niche world of extreme swimming where freezing is a given reality. Jack’s narration is the ideal overlay on the visual world of snow and ice that he presents from the Czech Republic. The explanations and descriptions of the winter swimmers are helpful and educational, but
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Ram Barkai has a dream. An interesting, innovative goal: to get ice swimming of 1K in the Winter Olympics. The Winter Olympic Games have evolved since the first winter sports celebration in France in 1924. And it will continue to evolve as it plays to growing television and Internet audiences around the world. From its
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So what is it, what is it you are doing? Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad paraphrases the poet Mary Oliver at the end of her funny, colorful description of her extreme swims with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish. She poses these questions in an introspective speech at last year’s TedMed Conference in San Diego, California. Copyright
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James Pittar is undoubtedly one of the bravest adventurers in the world. There are blind mountaineers, disabled marathon runners and endurance athletes who have endured all kinds of injuries and setbacks of all kinds. But the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee from Sydney, endures in the ultimate of sensory deprivation. His exploits, documented
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Eney Jones will re-release her patented EneyBuoy, an innovative plastic pulling buoy whose buoyancy can be adjusted. “The ability for a swimmer to modify the buoyancy while pulling can mimic the fluctuating conditions and buoyancy in the open water,” said the world-class swimmer from the University of Florida who has won masters championships in every
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The Alexander Channel Cup, a three-foot George V sterling silver trophy, was presented to Henry Sullivan for being the first American and third person overall to swim the English Channel His breaststroke crossing in 26 hours 50 minutes was celebrated in film that the London Daily Sketch described as “…the most interesting film we have
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Colin Hill, the 2012 London Olympic Games Marathon Swimming Technical Operations Manager, was in Latvia (Jurmala, Riga) yesterday after taking part in the World Winter Swimming Championships. He and members of the Serpentine Swimming club went for a swim in the Baltic Sea for a cool down. And they caught some skiers and outlookers by
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A baby swan is called a cygnet or flipper. And they live in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km course in the Serpentine (shown swimming near the 10K finish). While the swans are well-known among those who frequent the Serpentine, the swan-swimmer combination may become more well-known during the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km event in London
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Scott “The Yesdoc” Richards, M.D., who achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, trains in an Endless Pool. Daily News of Open Water Swimming inquired about the what, when, why and how: Daily News of Open Water Swimming: Why do you train in the Endless Pools Swimming Machine
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