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The 6.5K International Bosphorus Swim (Boğazıçi) from Asia to Europe will hold its 22nd race in July 2010. Swimmers cross the Bosphorus (or Bosporus, Βόσπορος in Greek, İstanbul Boğazı in Turkish),from the north to the south. With the course so wide, the swimmer obviously decide to swim off in different directions. The Boğazıçi is a […]
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The 2010 Oceania 5K and 10K Swimming Championships will be held in Faleausiu on the island of Upolu, a large volcano in Samoa in June. Less than a year after the population of Upolu was victimized by a massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami in September 2009, we are very happy to see Samoa
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Ron Collins, founder of the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim commented on our previous story on the Greatest Fears of Open Water Swimming. Ron asked about the bottom and how many injuries are caused by open water swimmers cutting themselves on a sharp rock or on coral as they get in or out of the
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Swimming World Magazine wrote about the key movers and shakers within the sport of swimming in the USA. Sid Cassidy, was identified as the Open Water Swimming Guru, within USA Swimming, a description richly deserved. We have frequently referred to Sid as Mr. Open Water due to his influence and passionate behind-the-scenes work at the
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroes, the San Francisco Bay swim of Andrew Smilley from the Cayman Islands just barely out-voted the world record setting relay team of Camlough, Ireland as the 2009 Greatest Open Water Swim of the Year. Out of 9,133 votes cast by fans around the globe,
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroes, Bulgaria’s Petar Stoychev was voted as the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year out of 18,024 votes cast by fans around the globe. Petar graciously said, “Thank you very much for the wonderful news. I am very happy with this award.”
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Among an extraordinarily impressive field of outstanding open water swimming heroines, Poliana Okimoto was voted as the 2009 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year out of 21,275 votes cast by fans around the globe. Poliana graciously said, “Thanks very much. I’m very happy for this!“ “I’m very happy to win this voting. This
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In an online poll conducted by The Daily News of Open Water Swimming, 208 experienced swimmers from around the world expressed their greatest fears of the open water. Despite the hoards who are entering the open bodies of water around the world, fear still plays a factor in the minds of many. Here is what
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Thank you very much for visiting The Daily News of Open Water Swimming. We always attempt to bring an objective, interesting, positive global perspective to the world of open water swimming. During 2009, we posted nearly 1,200 news stories and traveled 149,949 airmiles to cover open water swimming events in 82 countries, from America to
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The first China to Taiwan swim was held earlier this year from Xiamen in the Fujian Province in China to Shuangkou Village in Kinmen County in Taiwan. As a symbol of cross-strait peace, the swimmers participated under the mutual goal that is translated to ‘Unifying China with One Country, Two Systems.’ The occasionally tumultuous six-decade
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