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Open Water Source is giving away a free SPEEDO AquaBeat MP3 player to the person who tags the most number of photos or comments on the photos from today’s men’s 10K world championship race. The contest will start at 9 am Beijing time and will end 4 hours later at 1 pm Beijing time. Open […]
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The results are in… Payne wins 10K FINA World Champs and gains a berth for London. The referees said that it was a difficult race with lots of conflicts and contact. Several yellow cards and red cards were given due to the plethora of physical contact. Keri-Anne Payne proved her training and long-range strategy is
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ESPN, the American sports juggernaut, posted an article about the potential dangers of the open water swimming events at the 2011 FINA World Championships here (link to http://espn.go.com/blog/olympics/post/_/id/995/open-water-safety-still-an-issue-at-worlds) in Shanghai. While other major sports media outlets cover their top open water swimmers and their chances of success in the competition, ESPN and other American publications
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Ram Barkai, “the ice man” will be featured in an upcoming documentary on Super Humans based upon his cold water swimming adventures. Check out more at Cape Argus Copyright © 2011 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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With ten athletes automatically qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics 10K Marathon Swim in tomorrow’s world championship race in Shanghai, Open Water Source speculated on ten steps covering how an athlete would ideally prepare and race this pressure-packed competition. 1. Acclimate to warm-weather, warm-water conditions. The top athletes have spent time in warm-weather, warm-water conditions
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Open Water Source will cover the women’s 10K marathon swim Olympic qualifier in Shanghai tomorrow at 9 am Beijing time. Follow with extensive pre-race, in-race and post-race coverage via videos, tweets, commentary and results via The Daily News of Open Water Swimming and @openwatersource and the YouTube Openwatersource channel. With all the athletes staying at
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Ten of these 67 men will automatically qualify for the 2012 London Olympics 10K Marathon Swim. The others will qualify at the second qualification race to be held at Setubal Bay in Portugal in June 2012. Guillermo Bertola (ARG)Damian Blaum (ARG)Ky Hurst (AUS)Rhys Mainstone (AUS)Sergit Fesenko (AZE)Brian Ryckeman (BEL)Tom Vangeneugden (BEL)Sam De Bona (BRA)Allan Do
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Reporting from Shanghai The start list for the 2011 FINA World Swimming Championships 10K race tomorrow is as follows: Cecilia Biagioli (ARG)Danielle De Francesco (AUS)Melissa Gorman (AUS)Inha Kotsur (AZE)Anastassiya Zhidkova (AZE)Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA)Poliana Okimoto (BRA)Zsofi Balazs (CAN)Nadine Williams (CAN)Yanqiao Fang (CHN)Li Xue (CHN)Karla Sitic (CRO)Jana Pechanova (CZE)Silvie Rybarova (CZE)Katia Barros (ECU)Nataly Caldas (ECU)Laila El
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The Other P2P: Peaks to Portland (Maine) “Normal people take the ferry; exceptional people swim back” – so said the flyer for the 30th annual 2.4 mile Peaks Island to Portland’s East End Beach swim, known locally as P2P. As someone who loves ocean swimming races, and has a home in Maine, I thought it
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