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The Night Train Swimmers started shortly after 6 am yesterday off the Farallones Islands 30 miles west of San Francisco Bay, but they abandoned the swim for medical reasons after nearly 8 hours fighting large swells and sub-50°F (10°C) water. Team captain Vito Bialla tweeted on the Night Train Swimmers website, “Swimmer matt davie severe […]
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Chris Labianco won the U.S. Masters Swimming 6K Open Water National Championships in Windsor, Colorado. The two-time masters national champion won the four-loop race in in Lake Water Valley in 1:16.33 that followed up his third-place overall finish in the U.S. Masters Swimming 1-mile National Championship in North Carolina in May. “Good race today, little
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A flotilla of Olympians and Olympic medalists from the Cayman Islands, Great Britain, South Africa and the U.S. chased Alex Meyer of Harvard University and Eva Fabian of Greenwood Memorial Swim Club at the Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands, but the pool stars could not catch the open water specialists who were clearly
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With more than 40 people planning a crossing of the Catalina Channel, more than 250 people planning a crossing of the English Channel, a record number of solo swimmers and relays doing the Rottnest Channel Swim in western Australia, Hawaii, a slew of people attempting the Cook Strait and the Tsugaru Channel, it is not
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The world’s largest mass participation open water swim, the 3.3K Sun Moon Lake International Swim will be held on September 12th. If visitors wish to swim with 25,000 other open water swimmers in a beautifully tranquil lake at 760 meters (2,493 feet) altitude in central Taiwan, Blue Skies Adventures offers English-language guided tours to the
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Lewis Pugh, renowned environmentalist and swimmer, lived up to his recently published book, Achieving the Impossible. A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth. In his autobiography, he explains about VASBYT, an Afrikaners word that means to never give up – to have grit and determination – literally translated as ‘bite hard’. In Achieving the Impossible, Lewis
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Mallory Mead, en route to literally swim around the world after her initial English Channel success in 2008, started the new multi-race Swim for Kids’ Sake. “We raised money for Riley Children’s Hospital, one of America’s best children’s hospitals with the world’s largest pediatric sleep disorders center,” said Mallory. “And we enjoyed a great competition.”
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As the world continues gets more polluted and the sport of open water swimming continues to grow, these two phenomena will eventually clash. But a new revolutionary testing process looks to help protect marine enthusiasts in potentially contaminated waters, initially in Orange County, California, and eventually around the US. Tony Barboza of the Los Angeles
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The Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming is defined as the completion of the English Channel, the Catalina Channel and the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. 36 people to date have successfully completed a Triple Crown, some within a year. But just as the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing can be defined differently, there are alternative
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Lewis Pugh told South Africa’s Weekend Post that on his training swim before his unprecedented 1K swim at 5300-meter altitude in a glacial lake on Mt. Everest, “My team had to pull me out of the water several times because I was choking and vomiting and fighting to breathe. It felt like a combination of
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