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The organizers at the 2010 World Championships have prepared fireworks, a rousing open ceremonies, sand castles and rainbows for the athletes. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Two FinishLynx® cameras are used at the finish of the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships in order to help the officials judge the proper finish of the athletes – who often come in large packs barreling to the finish. FinishLynx® is the world’s most popular and versatile digital photofinish and timing system. The system,
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South African ice swimmers survive life-threatening water temperatures (4°C) to raise over R10,000 for Karoo school in coldest swim event in Africa, called the Speedo Ice Swim. The Speedo Ice Swim saw six cold-water veterans complete the mile race and 19 others swam 600 meters in the icy dam near bone-chilling Sutherland, Northern Cape, South
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In tomorrow’s women’s 5K world championship, there will be plenty of completely fresh swimmers like Danielle De Francesco of Australia, Alice Franco of Italy going up against the women who competed in the 5K and who are hungry for a world championship medal, including Poliana Okimoto of Brazil and Eva Fabian who collided and missed
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The world championships have presented a variety of issues to the swimmers including a sudden shift in water temperatures from 24°C (75°C) to 17°C (62°C), clarification of swimsuit specifications, controversy that resulted in disqualifications, plenty of yellow cards, new champions, emerging swimmers, fast sprints, tactical racing, hypothermia, missed buoys, fat lips, cuts, scraps and bruises.
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Like the men’s 10K race at the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships where Valerio Cleri of Italy bulled his way to the finish in 17°C (62.6°C) water in Roberval, Canada, the 5K race is going to stacked with studs. However, unlike the tactical 10K race where the men paced themselves in the first half
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Eva Fabian, the smallest women at the elite levels of open water swimming with a huge heart, has a good reason for leading races from the front: what happens behind her. “I got hit several times,” said Christine Jennings who placed sixth at yesterday’s 10K world championship where she exited the water with a swollen
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This is our take on Day One of the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships where there was a possible changing of the established guard. But, as the elite open water swimming world knows: Olympic opportunities will be on the line at the 2011 World Swimming Championships which will serve as the first qualification for
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Heidi Levasseur of Trois-Riviese, Quebec, Canada completed an unprecedented 160K swim around the perimeter of Tour du Lac St-Jean, a swim where she swam between 15-35K each day between July 12th – 17th. “Swimming is my passion. I want to give a message to people who have a dream. I also want to join a
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A Remarkable Pacing Effort By The World’s Best Courtesy of WOWSA, Roberval, Canada. Yesterday’s world 10 km champion Martina Grimaldi of Italy swam four fairly evenly-split 2.5 km loops in the 10 km course in Roberval: 31:08, 31:29, 31:24 and 30:44. Silver medalist Giorgia Consiglio 31:09, 30:58, 31:26 and 31:54 while bronze medalist Yanqiao Fang
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