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For over four decades, the Naples Island Swim continues on. The California classic consisted of five events in Long Beach, California’s Los Alamitos Bay. Race director Merrit Johnson Morris, describes the various courses in this unique venue, “The one-mile race cuts through the canals in middle of Naples Island. The 3-mile race is a circumnavigational […]
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The family of Fran Crippen, was honored with the Athletes’ Appreciation Award at the 2011 United States Aquatic Sports annual convention. The Athletes’ Appreciation Award recognizes the individual who contributed most significantly to the athletes’ movement. Fran’s long-time coach at the Germantown Academy, Richard Shoulberg, was given USA Swimming’s highest award for making the most
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One of the most memorable sporting images in the 21st century was the finish of the 2008 Beijing Olympics 100-meter butterfly. Michael Phelps came storming during the last half of the race to beat Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by 0.01 seconds. Serbia filed a protest after Michael won but the FINA officials reviewed the backup video
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In pool swimming competitions around the world, pool swimmers are timed by electronic touchpads. These plastic touch pads have sensitive pressure switches connected to a timekeeper’s console that instantaneously registers a finish. In the Olympics and some major competitions, a high-speed camera and three time judges are used in case of a mechanical malfunction. In
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Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas was the USA Swimming Director of Physiology and Director of Sports Science from 2000 and 2008. He has the world’s largest data base of swimmer’s lactate threshold of anyone in the world due to his 20+ years of testing and analyzing lactate thresholds of elite swimmers from Russia to the U.S.A. Dr.
The following introductions and questions at the Women In The Water webinar will be answered by 7-time world professional marathon swimming champion Shelley Taylor-Smith and Open Water Source’s Mike Lewis: Diana Nyad IntroductionDiana Nyad is one of the most renowned marathon swimmers of all time. She eloquently speaks of her own endurance swims and the
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Dr. Maglione, President of FINA, described the aquatic venues at the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, China, “…the success of the Championships can also be measured in terms of infrastructures and overall organisation. The venues in the Oriental Sports Complex were simply superb: the indoor pools for Swimming, Synchronised Swimming and Water Polo, the
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The city of Guadalajara and the Mexican Swimming Federation won the bid to host the 2017 FINA World Championships. “All the bids must be congratulated for their hard work and professional involvement. That is a guarantee that these championships will be outstanding, held in excellent facilities and counting with the highest support of the respective
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Social scientists tell us that only 6% of the population is really doing what they love in their lives. But in meeting with open water swimmers around the world at events, on beaches, along bays, in rivers and escort boats, their joy and exhilaration for life indicate to us that many – if not a
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An analysis by Open Water Source of the field at this Sunday’s RCP Tiburon Mile shows the prestigious professional race is…pretty average. That is, 41% of the swimmers are female – which is near the overall U.S. average for female participation. The average woman’s age is 33.2 years while the men average is 36.7 years.
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