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On Sunday, August 21st Marcellus Wiley, a former NFL All-Pro and current ESPN announcer, will be hosting The OptimisSport Distance Swim Challenge. This open water endurance swim competition is being held in the Santa Monica Bay. It is designed to inspire everyone from the elite swimmers to first-timers to try and challenge their body in […]
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Olympic coach John Dussliere captured the informative and entertaining post-race interview with world champions Martina Grimaldi of Italy, Eva Fabian of the USA and Poliana Okimoto of Brazil after the London 10km Marathon Swimming International here last week. The athletes were universally complimented their British hosts and the race course itself. “I felt really good
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Courtesy of World Open Water Swimming Association, Huntington Beach, California. The 24th annual International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen is one of the world’s most popular and best run marathon swims. The 26.4 km solo and relay swim starts in Rapperswil, Switzerland and finishes in Zurich. Renowned marathon and channel coach Nuala Moore colorfully describes the event, “It
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In the sporting world, the issue of the encroachment of technology has always been a contentious issue. Usually the issue is more of an issue with administrators than it is for athletes who are interested in going faster, further, higher and stronger. Fortunately, in the open water swimming world, new technologies has been widely and
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The veterans were all in agreement – the 8th annual Pennock Island Challenge in Ketchikan, Alaska was the most difficult in history. Which only brought smiles to the faces of the tough adventure swimmers who gathered from around the world – and provided ample ammunition for post-swim war stories. [Read More…]
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The Pacific Swim is Benoit Lecomte‘s solo swim attempt from the east coast of Japan, north of Tokyo, across the Pacific Ocean, to San Francisco, California. Benoit estimates that his solo stage swim will take six months to swim the 5,419 miles across the world’s largest body of water. The swim will be a stage
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Diana Nyad will appear on The Today Show tomorrow, Wednesday, August 17th between 8:30 – 9:00 am. The Today Show from New York is America’s leading morning news TV show. Nyad will undoubtedly offer some profound and colorful insight on her Xtreme Dream – what happened during those 29 hours and 56 excruciating miles –
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Simon Griffiths, publisher, editor and founder of H2Open Magazine, shares his thoughts on the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course in London: Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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“It was an amazing weekend when everything we had planned and hoped for came together perfectly. To smash the record by such a margin was way beyond my wildest hopes. The press coverage has been great for Fermanagh and for the Ulster Cancer Foundation.” A humble, heartfelt summary of a relay team of six swimmers
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Tony Sellmeyer published the third edition of his historical journal of the Cape Long Distance Swimming Association. And he has a lot of material to work with, adding an abundance of new material since the second edition. It simply could not be easy deciding what to write. With such cold, rough waters filled with marine
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