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From all indications on the Night Train Swimmers website and tweets, its all-female team finished their 30-mile relay from the Golden Gate Bridge to the South Farallon Island yesterday (see here) – and like most things in marathon swimming, nothing was easy. The 16 hour 29 minute 30 second effort by the team of Kim […]
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Swimming a 10K fast or swimming across the English Channel is always an accomplishment. But as a non-swimmer, how difficult is it to face your greatest fears in the open water? And how satisfying is it to ultimately overcome your greatest fears in the open water? Immensely satisfying. While the veteran is cool, calm and
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From New Hampshire to Hawaii, swimmers are receiving the right of way in the open water. While the state of New Hampshire issued legislation to give the right-of-way to open water swimmers in its lakes and the state of Hawaii designated separate lanes for swimmers and stand-up paddlers at its popular Ala Moana Beach. From
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At the 2011 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City on June 17th – 19th, Captain Tim Johnson, author of The History of Open-Water Marathon Swimming and an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, will give a technical presentation on navigational issues faced by open water swimmers. He will cover the basics
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Former world champion and top-ranked pro marathon swimmer Erica Rose is coming out of retirement to take on two-time Manhattan Island Marathon Swim champion John van Wisse at this year’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim on June 18th. The two personable marathon swimmers are humble ambassadors of the sport and they are similar in many ways.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrated Australian marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey took a long flight from her home Down Under to Grand Cayman. Together with her husband Chris Palfrey, they were warmly greeted by a number of high-ranking officials and politicians from the Cayman Islands. The island nation is bracing for her unprecedented solo
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The whimsical magical movementsOf my yakkers paddle in the waterMoves me with inspirationblinds me with bubblesAnd guides me with reliance. by Chris Dahowski who came up with the concept of Swim 22, a relay where 4 swimmers did one complete crossing of the Catalina Channel before handing off to the next swimmer. Copyright © 2011
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Sports Illustrated commented on the unfortunate situation of amateur and professional sports in contemporary society, “…the absence of positive drug testing should not be taken as proof that doping did not occur.” The renowned magazine went further in explaining its perspective. “Every advance in the detection of performance-enhancing drugs has been met with an advance
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On June 2nd in the middle of the deep blue Pacific Ocean, Andy Akinwolere, one of the presenters of Blue Peter, became the first person to swim across the deepest part of the Palau Trench, the deepest ever recorded location for an open water swim. Richard Turley reported that
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Jorge Aurelio Delgado Panchana of Ecuador will be receiving a Certificate of Merit for his decades of dedication and much-appreciated work in the open water swimming world at the United Nations on June 19th. His recognition will be part of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies where he will also give a speech
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