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WESTERN AUSTRALIA. As the swimsuit controversy continues to swirl in both the pool and open water swimming worlds, it is interesting to note how the Rottnest Channel Swim reasonably handles its particular circumstances in Western Australia vis-a-vis the venomous stingers that populate the Australian waters. In 2010, the Rottnest Channel Swim Association Committee amended its […]
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CHICAGO. For 22 years, Chicago has played host to the Big Shoulders 2.5K and 5K race along its shores of Lake Michigan every September. While “big shoulders” has always been a point of reference to the well-developed shoulders of swimmers, the genesis of the event name goes back to Chicago-born author-poet Carl Sandburg. Known alternatively
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After his illustrious professional marathon swimming career, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer Gustavo Oriozabala from Argentina continued to swim and challenge himself as a solo swimmer. In February 2006, Gustavo became the first person to swim between islands in the Falkland Islands, known as the Malvinas in Spanish. He swam 8K in
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The Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation will announce its 2012 CRO-CUP schedule and unveil a new website for the Faros Marathon this coming spring. The 2011 CRO-CUP is an annual open water swimming series organized by the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation that offered eight different events: Zagreb (5km), Novi Vinodolski (5km), Omiš (10km), Ist
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. TriMag Asia will include an article about the Top 50 Open Water Swims in Asia in its upcoming issue. Open water swimming is exploding around the world – especially in Asia. New swims and attempts at solo swims and relays in new locations are popping up on every country
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LAUSANNE. Among the fastest open water swimmers in the world, especially among the female elite, there is plenty of physical contact not only around the turn buoys and by the feeding stations, but also in many places along the straightaways. Granted most of the physical contact is incidental and unintentional. Like many amateur swims, physicality
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VENICE. Fabrizio Pescatori (on right) from Venice, Italy won the 25K marathon swim at the 1998 FINA World Swimming Championships and at the 1997 European Swimming Championships. He was the Italian national champion in 1995 10K and an Italian National Open Water Swimming Team member for ten years between 1989 and 1999. Like many generations
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“CUBA. Stings from Portuguese man o war tend to be erratic in shape,” explains marine expert Dr. Gail Grabowsky of Honolulu, Hawaii. “The man o war tentacles stick to the skin. Then, the swimmers touches them or gets further entangled and they end up with some really zig-zag scars.” The box jellyfish have very straight
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FRANCE. Erwan Le Corre from France is pushing his philosophy and way of life through MovNat. The catalyst behind MovNat’s clinics was his observation that many people have become the homo sapiens equivalent of cage, confined zoo animals. As a result of a lack of movement and exercise due to contemporary society’s reliance on escalators,
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LA JOLLA. Erwan Le Corre is the founder of MovNat, a physical education system and fitness method. Erwan teaches people to move naturally and efficiently in the manner of our nature-dwelling ancestors. Erwan’s natural and alternative approach to fitness and lifestyle leads him to believe that fitness is less about what the human body looks
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