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Really Fast Dolphining On Your Side Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are more and more top athletes doing more and more dolphining on their side. It seems to give these competitive swimmers a boost over their competitors, both in the open water (into an onshore finish) and in the pool (off the walls). […]
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Jack Bright reports from above the Arctic Circle, “For the last two weeks I have been in Petropavlovsk Kamchatski in Russia. I am participating in what will be a historic swim across the Bering Strait from Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka, Russia, to Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska USA (via Big and Little Diomede Islands). The water
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The TransBay Relay benefit swim for San Francisco Baykeeper will take place on September 10th. This 9-mile relay is the only organized swimming event that spans San Francisco Bay – starting at the Golden Gate, swimming past Alcatraz and Treasure Island, and finishing in Emeryville. Its participants help raise money and awareness for Baykeeper and
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Nacho M. Sela and his colleagues have organized another special edition of the annual Descenso a Nado Ría de Navia this year in Navia, Spain. In 2011, Navia and its river have been designed to host 2011 LEN European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships. The competitions will include a 5K race on August 12th, a
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Eric Shanteau is an American Olympic swimmer who is also a cancer survivor. He hosts the LiveSTRONG Open Water Event at Lake Lanier Islands in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on October 8th. The LiveSTRONG Open Water Event is a full day of open water swimming races and clinics with entertainment and Olympic swimmers in the spirit
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Craig Lenning joined yet another exclusive club of marathon swimming today after a courageous cold-water swim in a northernly clime. Previously a member of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming, Craig is now a member of the North Channel club, one of the most exclusive and notoriously difficult fraternities in the open water swimming
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The annual Martin Duggan Memorial Swim was held on the Blackwater River at Fermoy, Ireland. Despite (or perhaps because of?!?) unfavorable conditions, 42 hardy swimmers, including 22 non-wetsuiters, took part in this 2K freshwater race. In a great indication of a bright future, 24 of the swimmers were under the age of 18, making this
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In this online discussion with Human Kinetics, the following question was asked (2 minutes into the interview), “Given the untimely death of Fran Crippen, do you think the rules of open water swimming need to be changed?” The answer was as follows, “First and foremost, the rules of open water swimming need to be followed
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How global is open water swimming? At the recent FINA World Championships, there were four new countries that were represented by the gold medalists on top of the awards podium. For the first time in FINA World Championship history, Bulgaria (Petar Stoychev in the men’s 25K), Brazil (Ana Marcela Cunha in the women’s 25K), Switzerland
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69 years ago, Roy Webster and a few of his friends hopped in a boat, paddled across the Columbia River in Oregon to the Washington shore, and jumped in the river to swim back to Oregon. He began a tradition that continues today. Like the annual summer heat, the Roy Webster Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim