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One year after her marriage, Cecilia Biagioli gave her husband and herself a nice anniversary gift: the Pan American Games gold medal in the 10K in the warm 29.5°C (85°F) waters of Mexico. The 26-year-old four-time Olympian (3 times in pool, 1 in the open water) from Argentina separated herself from the elite field at […]
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It is with great sadness to report that International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer and the co-founder of the Manhattan Island Swimming Association, Tom Hetzel, passed away this Monday, October 17th in Texas. A man with a huge heart and deep passion for the sport of open water swimming, Tom touched the hearts
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Skip Storch attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida on June 2-3, 1993. With great fanfare and great expense, Skip started north from Cuba to his goal of Florida. “During the night, I was exposed to millions of jellyfish. The cage pushed most jellyfish aside, but the exception were the 3-foot orange jellyfish that exploded
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44-year-old Christie Leet and Chris Palfrey became the first people to successfully swim between one of the Whitsunday group of islands, off the coast of Queensland, and the Australian mainland. “Leaving from Roma point, the southern tip of South Molle, we swam in a north west direction up the. Molle Channel and then around pioneer
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Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, explains in his fascinating book, American Mania. When More Is
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“My philosophy is, you have to have the right screw loose to be a good endurance athlete. You look at the best ones, they’re crazy,” described Alex Meyer to the New York Times about marathon swimmers. “It was very difficult. No one has ever been stupid enough to attempt this before,” recalled David Yudovin, an
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Aloha can mean hello and good-bye in the Hawaiian language. Darren Miller bid good-bye to Molokai Island this morning, swam 12 hours 12 minutes across the Kaiwi Channel (Moloka’i Channel) under reasonably good conditions (relatively speaking), and said hello to Oahu Island this Friday evening. The channel crossing was his third successful leg of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Redmond talks about his escort crews of his marathon swims, “They are your life support…for whatever time it takes. You hand your life over to these guys. You don’t know them, but all of a sudden they are the greatest friends you’ll ever come across. It is an
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Alex Meyer, the Harvard intellectual who takes a studious approach to marathon swimming, was nominated by USA Swimming in two separate categories in its annual Golden Goggle Awards: in the Breakout Performance of the Year category and in the Perseverance Award category. The USA Swimming Foundation Golden Goggle Awards are a star-studded awards gala celebrating
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The Rotary Club made an announcement about its Global Swimarathon with a bit of additional news on the open water swimming front. According to the press release issued on World Polio Day, Penny Palfrey is going to attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida sometime in June 2012. The past 22 years, the Rotary Club