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With one week to go for the start of the 2011 FINA World Championships 2011, 181 countries and 2,220 athletes have registered for the 14th edition of FINA’s premier championship event.During the 16-day competition, 40 finals will be held in Swimming (July 24-31), 10 in Diving (July 16-24), seven in Synchronised Swimming (July 17-23), six […]
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Forrest Nelson Courageous Circumnavigation Around Catalina Courtesy of WOWSA, Catalina Channel. Rumors out of the Southern California marathon swimming community say that Forrest Nelson successfully completed another incredible swim in the Pacific Ocean. This time, he replicated the feat of Cindy Cleveland by circumnavigating Catalina Island. 48 miles of cold, hard water where eddies and
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These are the words of advice of American endurance athlete Melissa Stockwell who was recently nominated for an ESPY Award. Melissa was an Army officer who lost a leg while serving in Iraq and has since become a first rate para-athlete and Paralympian (as a triathlete and swimmer at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics).She also loses
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Off the rugged cold-water west coast, Ireland will showcase many of its finest distance swimmers. Their talents will be on display as they circumnavigate Beginish Island. Ned Denison explains, “In one lap around the Island the swimmers will experience all the possible conditions. It starts at low water from a sand spit. The first 500
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Bruckner Chase is working with Gene Brighouse of the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Sandra Lutu of the Department of Commerce in American Samoa on Toa ole Tai (Ocean Heroes) Program for American Samoa. It is similar to a program that Olympian Shane Gould and Milt Nelms developed in Fiji with many of the
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Time Magazine published a thought-provoking report on sharks where they pinpointed the decline in sharks due to the popularity of shark-fin soup and their accidental deaths because of fishing gear set for other species. As a result, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that as many as a third of all shark
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The course of the World University Games was unveiled. The expected water temperatures are 86 – 88°F (30 – 31°C) with expected air temperatures hovering between 88 – 91°F (31 – 32.7°C). This combination of air and water temperatures are extremely high for elite athletes swimming at world-class pace for 2 hours, but they fall
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This Dutch-produced video showcases open water swimming in the Aegean Sea at the Special Olympics World Summer Games. The open water athletes and 1.5K race are shown in the second half of the video: Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Baiadigrotta and Tricenter are organizing Nino Fazio’s solo attempt to swim from Vulcano (Aeolian Islands) to Milazzo (Sicily) on July 7th. The 23 km course is expected to take Nino around 8 hours. The Vulcano-Milazzo solo swim is one of the classics of open water swims in Italy. It was completed for the first time
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