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Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming. He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor - Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

Lexie Kelly Leads At-Home Workouts During Quarantine

Lexie Kelly Leads At-Home Workouts During Quarantines Courtesy of @SwimOutlet. As nearly every pool in California and an increasing number across the United States are closed during the growing coronavirus pandemic, American open water swimmer Lexie Kelly is leading daily online workouts via Instagram Live @SwimOutlet this week. @lexiekellyswim is coaching live at-home dryland workouts

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Alex Young Does The Ryte Thing

Alex Young Does The Ryte Thing Courtesy of Alex Young, Ryte Sport. Alex Young, President & Co-Founder of Ryte Sport in Southern California, has focused his time, talents and resources on designing and producing personalized swimwear, individually customized for swimmers. But the ongoing and growing coronavirus pandemic has significantly impacted his business and production in

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Adventurous Life Well Lived, Thomas Burgess

Adventurous Life Well Lived, Thomas Burgess Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. “Any fool knows that of all [English] Channel swimmers only Burgess has an earthly chance of getting there,” said a Dover escort pilot. “I have seen all the best of them, good, bad, and indifferent, including Montague Holbein, Jabez Wolfe, and Heaton; but Burgess’

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Stay Thirsty With The Most Interesting Men In The Open Water World

 Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jonathan Goldsmith is a model who is featured in “the world’s most interesting man” ad campaign that first began appearing in the United States in 2006. The fictional hero of the Most Interesting Man in the World Dos Equis beer campaign has a number of fanciful and fabricated talents

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Tokyo Olympics Faces Force Majeure, Postponement

Tokyo Olympics Faces Force Majeure, Postponement Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. It seemed inevitable that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were in jeopardy when Tokyo was an early hotspot in the coronavirus (COVID-10) pandemic in January – February. European countries and the United States were seemingly much safer back then and talks

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Binge Watching Swimming Over The Last Century

With new restrictions being increasingly implemented around the world, including a lockdown in California and Italy, swimmers are finding them increasingly isolated in their homes and communities – with no real understanding of how long they will be in quarantine, in a lockdown or in a shelter-in-place community. Movies set in the open water or

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