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RIO DE JANEIRO. The King and Queen of the Sea amateur and professional swims in Brazil are world class entertainment. Competitive open water swimming, biathlons and fun in the Rio de Janeiro sun under the glaze of television cameras. Race director Pedro Rego Monteiro commissioned a theme song for the race – Chegou A Hora […]
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Mandy Lebides couldn’t swim freestyle 18 months ago and hated the idea of goggles. But she caught the open water swimming bug and completed her first channel swim – from Robben Island in four hours. But her road to success took a slight detour. “I planned to swim the Freedom Swim relay in 2011, but
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A new year is a great time to seek new goals and Amanda Fair Horton is a budding open water swimmer with a resolution that swimming will be another lap on her journey towards health. She has been inspired by Lynne Cox, one of the who’s-who of the sport. Lynne’s equivalent in sports would be
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TAMPA BAY. Rory O’Connor explains why he organizes the 5 km Tampa Bay Frogman Swim on January 8th across Tampa Bay, Florida. “The answer lies at the very heart of the event.” In 2009, Navy SEAL Lt. Dan Cnossen lost both legs and sustained numerous internal injuries as a result of a combat mission in
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Only 12 days after freakishly fracturing her tibia plateau and fibula in her leg in the final sprint of the Queen of the Sea pro race in Rio de Janeiro, Christine Jennings was back in the water. Told that she couldn’t get in the water for three weeks, Christine is quickly willing herself back to
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Vicko Šoljan of the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation will publish a grand gala monograph of the Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championship – Faros Maratón in early 2012. Dr. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee, wrote an introduction to the monograph, “I have a great pleasure to greeting this worthy publication about
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Of the hundreds of new open water swimming events that were started during 2011, most have established a firm course for a successful future. In New York, the new 7-day, 7-stage 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim last July was one such unique event – just quite a bit longer and more challenging. Dr. Rondi Davis
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SAN FRANCISCO. It has been a year of discovery for Jamie Patrick. Planning and training for his adventure swims around busy work demands and family life, Jamie is like many in the open water world where everyone seeks to carve out their own niche and achieve their own goals, on their own time and in
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ARGENTINA. Pilar Geijo dominated her fellow competitors on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit and was selected as the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year. Traveling with her husband who serves as her ever-attentive coach, she competed over 292K (181 miles) in cold-water lakes, rough seas and warm-water rivers around
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi‘s solo stage swim, which began on June 22nd on the island of Djerba, has captured the attention of his native Tunisia. Similar to other cross-country endurance events, the passion, commitment and logistics behind Nejib’s 1400K Swim Across Tunisia are at a scale nearly unimaginable. Nejib has inspired