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Among the multitude of swimmers who get stung by jellyfish across the high seas around the Planet Earth, Penny Palfrey, Patti Bauernfeind’ and Bruckner Chase‘s defeat by the jellies remind us of the StingMate story. Smithwick’s StingMate® was invented to help the situation, but its invention starts on land. Julie and Webb Willmott were visiting […]
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We were humbled by several sights at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K race at Marine Stadium in Long Beach: Double Olympic medalist Bob Seagren of Run Racing waking up at the crack of dawn and hauling floating pontoons, moving boxes and climbing scaffolding to set up the course. Humble and hard-working, the Olympian
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The 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships culminated in an entertaining race – up and back and up and back and up and back over 10,000 meters in the women’s 10K marathon swim in Marine Stadium in Long Beach, California. Simply put, the women gutted it out – going hard right from the start and showing
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Chip Peterson, the 2005 world 10K champion, is back. Turning on his jets like he did way back in 2005, Chip won the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K race and is obviously back on track for the second half of the 2012 quadrennial season. “I felt good,” smiled the always humble University of North Carolina
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More details will come on Patti Bauernfeind‘s Monterey Bay Swim last night, but Patti was pulled from the water close to her goal after being stung unmercifully by jellyfish in the 56°F (13°C) water. “I had a great [first] 8.5 miles with a good pace and without jellyfish. It was lovely to swim in such
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Whether it was the finish of the 32K lac St-Jean race or the finish of the 34K lac Memphremagog race in Canada, the local fans in Quebec really support the 10-time victor Petar Stoychev: But what is even more amazing is that all these fans stick around for hours madly cheering for each and every
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Claudia Rose reported from the rough and rugged southeast Alaska where she competed in the Sitka Sound Adventure Swim and the 8.2-mile Pennock Island Challenge. “Both races are great adventures,” recalled Claudia who was one of the seven finishers of the first Sitka Sound Adventure Swim. This race started out at Magic Island in 53-55°F
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Melissa Gorman, the Australia 2009 world 5K champion, unexpectedly won the 1500-meter freestyle last night over world record holder Kate Ziegler of America at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in a 16:01. “We have lots of traditions in distance freestyle in Australia,” said the pool and open water swimming star. “I really tried to
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After reporting that Jamie Patrick was the first person to swim across Clear Lake in a May 18th article (17.68 miles in 7 hours and 34 minutes in a wetsuit), The Daily News of Open Water Swimming learned that Scott Hadley should be credited with the first swim across Clear Lake with his 11 hour
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One of the most compelling stories among elite swimmers in America centers around Eric Shanteau, an Olympic swimmer and cancer survivor. One week before the USA Olympic Swimming Trials, Eric was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Despite the devestating news, Eric swam at Trials and made the USA Olympic team and later swam his lifetime best
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