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Simon Holliday Recalls The History Behind The Chinese Zodiac Courtesy of Simon Holliday. Simon Holliday, a marathon swimming Learning & Development Professional and co-founder at Splash Foundation, wrote, “A long time ago, the Jade Emperor decided mankind needed a calendar to measure the passing of time. Each year of the cycle would be represented by […]
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Who is going to win the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the Tokyo Olympics in Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo Bay?
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IISA III World Championships Murmansk Highlights Courtesy of EnduranceSports.tv, Lake Semyonovskoye, Murmansk, Russia. Watch highlights from the IISA III World Championships Murmansk 2019 in Russia here. Copyright © 2019 by EnduranceSports.tv.
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Pre-dawn Swimming In Seal Beach Courtesy of Peter Knapp, Seal Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honorees Cindy Cleveland, Lynne Cox and Penny Dean, and their open water coach Siga Rose trained in Seal Beach, California since they emerged in the channel swimming community in the 1970’s. Site of 50 editions of the
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Aussies To Defend Home Turf At Australian Open Water Swimming Championships Courtesy of Australian Swimming, Brighton Beach, Adelaide. Jon McKay from Canada, Gaku Watanabe, Kuu Motoyama, Koichiro Iwazumi, and Shuu Watanabe from Japan, Ferry Weertman and Olivier Jans from the Netherlands, Jordan Wilimovsky and Nicholas Norman from the USA, Sebastien Priscott from the New Zealand,
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> > Sights From The Two-stage Russia-to-Japan Swim Courtesy of Alexander Brylin, La Pérouse Strait, Russia-to-Japan. Alexander Brylin, one of the world’s most renowned ice swimmers and one of its most active ambassadors, provided photos from the cross-border channel relay through the La Pérouse Strait between Sakhalin, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan. Brylin explained, “The first
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Rafael Vale Amoresano Does Travessia do Leme ao Pontal In 10 Hours 6 Minutes Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the early hours of January 21st after a week with many climatic instabilities, 36-year-old Rafael Vale Amoresano started swimming at 1:00 am in Praia do Leme
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2020 EDF Aqua Challenge Courtesy of Loïc Branda. Loïc Branda is the managing director of a open water swimming series in France called EDF Aqua Challenge. “This year we launched the Tournée with 13 events that are held from May to September. In total, there will be 22 stages (13 EDF Aqua Challenge race plus
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Blue Man Group Down In Antarctica Courtesy of A Service of Celebration for Commonwealth Day 2019, BBC, Westminster Abbey, London, England. Lewis Pugh, United Nations Patron of the Oceans, has always been expressive, especially about his latest training swim. “I can hardly believe what I have just experienced, swimming in a river UNDER the Antarctic
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Chloë McCardel Doing Her Bit To Help Out Courtesy of Chloë McCardel, Australia. Chloë McCardel is many things: a transformative leader, a keynote speaker, an ambassador for various organizations and causes, a marathon/channel swimming coach, and 31-time English Channel swimmer. She is also certainly compassionate and sympathetic. She explains her newest initiative, “You may have
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