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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
As Anne Cleveland (standing on far left with world 5K champion Melissa Gorman on far right) will explain at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on June 5th, the history of successful women in open water swimming is fascinating and reasons why the sport is currently exploding among the female gender. […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anne Cleveland of La Jolla, California already has one double-crossing of the English Channel under her belt. This August, Cleveland will attempt to become the first person in history to also do a double-crossing of the Catalina Channel for an unprecedented “double-double”. We asked Cleveland how she trains for
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Pool-Mate is one of the most innovative and useful products to hit the swimming market in years. It is selling off the shelves – especially to those who prefer to focus on other things other than counting laps. It is most interesting (and magical) how the intelligent Pool-Mate watch automatically knows how many laps you
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Lewis Pugh is on his way up Mount Everest to do his 1-mile swim in a glacial lake at 17,000-foot altitude. As Kevin Murphy said during his acceptance speech at the International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony this weekend in Florida, “Marathon swimming is a team effort for swimmers cannot do their swims alone
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FINA will host an Open Water Swimming Seminar at the 6th FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Roberval, Quebec, Canada on July 19th at the Hôtel Château Roberval. Each National Federation attending the world championships can send representatives. Pierre Lafontaine (shown on left), CEO of Swimming Canada, will give the opening keynote speech on
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POW (Pool Open Water) is sweeping across America as swimmers and triathletes start to gear up for the summer open water swimming and triathlon season. Among Special Olympics athletes, Karen Pratz of the Ocean City Recreation Department at the Ocean City Aquatics and Fitness Center in New Jersey started POW workouts earlier this year. Now,
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The proceeds from the Swim 4 Freedom will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to support America’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special Operations personnel and their families by providing college educations to surviving children of personnel killed in combat or training and by providing financial assistance to personnel severely wounded in
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In arguably the most diverse class of inductees in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, the mix of men and women, competitive professional swimmers and solo swimmers, administrators and escort pilots, pioneers and disabled athletes was extraordinarily impressive. Australian Penny Palfrey, still sporting visible Portuguese Man-o-War stings on her arms and legs as a
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During discussions with British Swimming, we learned that up to 250,000 spectators are expected to line the banks of the Serpentine in Hyde Park to watch the women’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympics – and another 250,000 spectators expected to watch the men race their 10K the day after. Half a
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming previously reported on brown fat, a very important physiological phenomena for all open water swimmers who enter cool (or cold) water. Reuters has now distributed the same information on the remarkable fact of brown fat which is now receiving global awareness. Reuters‘s article starts, “Scientists have found out
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