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Philip Rush’s Incomparable Interview On WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. Tomorrow’s WOWSA Live welcomes one of open swimming’s greatest living heroes, a quiet, determined man who played to his strengths in the oceans and lakes around the world. In this incredible WOWSA Live interview, New Zealand’s Philip Rush explains his incredible […]
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John Muenzer is on a comeback with an English Channel swim and a Tampa Bay Marathon Swim under his belt. After training under the world-renowned Doc Counsilman at Indiana University and then breaking a world marathon swimming record in Lake Erie in 1983, he entered the work force and raised 7 kids. Back in 1983,
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USA Swimming is providing a new pre-race safety checklist for its athletes who compete in non-USA Swimming sanctioned races. USA Swimming‘s national team members are encouraged to get these questions answered before they make their decisions on what races to compete in. As USA Swimming states on its website, “It is common for USA Swimming
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Photo is courtesy of the Albert Dock Boxing Day Swim, an extreme cold-water swim held on December 26th in Liverpool, England. The swimmers participated in the swim organized by the Liverpool Open Water Swimming Club on behalf of the Heartbeat charity. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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In an article on Universal Sports, Jason Devaney talks about the recent success of USA Swimming and how its women are roaring back to life. Jason has high expectations for the leaders of the American pool team led by Rebecca Soni, Katie Hoff, Kate Ziegler, Natalie Coughlin, Dana Vollmer and Jessica Hardy. But from our
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Shelley Taylor-Smith is turning her passion for open water swimming towards 39 Solo Rotto swimmers who will compete in the Rottnest Channel Swim on February 26. Shelley knows how to keep an audience captivated and her 39 Solo Rotto swimmers are progressing no others. It is no wonder. At the 2010 Global Open Water Swimming
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Open Water Source is looking for individuals who have completed any of the 30 major swims listed below: The goal is to create a global database of marathon swimmers based on their age at the time of their swim. This will enable a comparative analysis of marathon swimmers by chronological age – both male and
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Daan Glorie, a student at Johan Cruijff University in Amsterdam, will be swimming in the 88K FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in Argentina from Hernandarias to Parana as a preparation for his 24-hour solo swim effort where his goal is to swim 101K. His swim will a charity swim for the Ronald McDonald Centre
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The annual Peter Pan Christmas Day swim was cancelled due to the frozen lake. The hardy members of the Serpentine Swimming Club were shut out for the first time since 1981 when London’s Hyde Park was frozen over. Club secretary Brian Thomas jumped in where the lake ice was broken up (see below) and commented,
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Jack Bright tells the story of extreme winter swimming. It’s brutally cold, but exhilarating. Jack shows 1.PKO, a swim club in the Czech Republic that specializes in winter swimming in freezing water temperatures. “It is an organized sport with frequent races through the winter season. In the Czech Republic some of the world’s most extreme
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