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“Lots of people have asked me why I do ultra-marathon swims. It’s a good question, but it’s hard to express why I do it. I like the peacefulness of swimming, I like the challenge and dynamic nature of open water swimming since no swim is ever the same. I can’t go past a body of […]
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23 nations are attending the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championships (CCCAN) this week in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Swimmers will represent Netherland Antilles, Antigua-Barbuda, Aruba, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, U.S. Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and
Over 50 Cape Town swimmers tackled a choppy 13-14°C Atlantic Ocean race in Camps Bay in a fundraising effort for street children. The Cadiz Youth Day Swim offered a one and two-mile course as part of the Cadiz Swim Series, a host of cold water sea swims around Cape Town aimed at promoting swimming and
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Encouraged by Charlene Wittstock, the future princess of Monaco who has a strong interest in open water swimming, the Special Olympics open water swimmers kick-started their world championships today in Athens during the divisioning heats of the 800-meter freestyle. There was a lot of seriously fast swimming in the Olympic pool. The athletes were separated
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Tangled Turns In Turbulence? Courtesy of Mike Lewis, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Mike Lewis of shot video at an USA Swimming competition in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where young up-and-coming stars took to the open water. Copyright © 2008 – 2011 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Mike Lewis of Open Water Source shot photos at the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where the Americans and Canadians selected their world championship teams. Mike‘s photos can be seen here. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Today at the 2004 Athens Olympics pool, Chrysostomos Giannoulakis of the Special Olympics World Summer Games opened the festivities by explaining the new 1.5K open water swim in Attica Beach. “We have 35 swimmers from 19 national delegations. Safety is our number one priority. But the venue is outstanding and you can see the entire
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Jen King from California flew to the Cayman Islands to participate in the Flowers Sea Swim. She described her perspective of swimming with over 800 individuals in the one-mile swim on Seven Mile Beach. Like swimmers around the world who compete in swims with hundreds of others, the experiences at the mass start are among
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