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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA launched a new section in its website devoted to the profile of its aquatic superstars. Among those athletes featured on FINA’s website include those athletes below who medaled in the 5 km, 10 km and 25 km races at the 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China. Facts […]
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Political candidates in Arizona are campaigning for open water swimming. Before Arizona became an American state, the residents of Tempe used to do open water swimming when water still flowed through Salt River. But after the river dried up with the construction of the Roosevelt Dam, two candidates in Tempe are pushing for a possible
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Confidence is riding high among users of Speedo swimwear with its new FASTSKIN3 Racing System, an integrated swim cap, swim goggles and swimsuit. Predictions are that elite swimmers will break the formerly thought unassailable pool world records with the new Speedo system. Speedo representatives confirmed today that the new FASTSKIN3 does not include neoprene and
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At the age of 65, Dr. Roger Allsopp became the fourth oldest person to successfully swim across the English Channel. But he did not rest on those laurels. This August, at the age of 70, he became the oldest person to swim across the English Channel in 17 hours 51 minutes. Dr. Allsopp, a retired
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A few years ago, the main issue in the swimming world was the extraordinary number of world records set in the latest technical swimsuits. Issues of buoyance and compression and unfair advantages led the international coaching community to push FINA to outlaw the technical swimsuits. “Swimming in plastic bags” was the term often used as
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In this second installation of Open Water Source‘s series on Open Water Swimming Nutrition, Dr. Peter Attia explains the insulin response. The first episode is here. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Forrest Nelson does swims quietly without a lot of fanfare, but his shadow over the channel swimming world stretches far. Not only does he do marathon swims himself from a 48-mile circumnavigation of Catalina Channel in July to the 26-mile Molokai Channel in May, but he also serves as the charismatic President of the Catalina
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Penny Palfrey crossed the Molokai Channel (Kaiwi Channel) in a time of 12 hours 7 minutes today, breaking the existing locally recognized record held by Daren Miller of 12 hours 12 minutes set earlier this year. It was also her sixth recognized swim in her quest to become the first person to complete the Ocean’s
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Ray Gandy‘s 50-mile charity swim in Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island, USA for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society ran into the stark, cold, rough reality of Mother Nature. Smooth conditions turned to rough, day turned into night, comfortable turned to cold. Typical for marathon swimmers who expect the unexpected. With an aim of 50 miles,
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The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is arguably one of the biggest annual sports awards in the UK Sports heroes, icons, role models.A range of sports experts from newspapers and magazines across the UK were asked to send in their top 10 selections. From these nominations, the final of 10 contenders for the 2011
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