Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be no marathon swimming event at the 3rd Summer Youth Olympic Games (Games of the III Youth Olympiad) that will be held in Buenos Aires between October 6th – 18th. 206 nations will collectively send nearly 4,000 teenage athletes to compete in 32 sports including triathlon where

Courtesy of Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim Twitter account and an English translation by Hurriyet Daily News from the Istanbul Strait, Turkey. 2,472 people from 55 countries safely finished the Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim (Samsung Boğazıçi Kitalararasi Yarislari or Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı), a 6.5 km race across the Istanbul Strait where swimmers start by

Courtesy of Josef Köberl, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria. Icebears Hintertux is a 3-day high-altitude, cold water swimming camp hosted by International Ice Swimming Association Austria between July 26th – July 29th in Hintertuxer Gletscher. Austrian Josef Köberl is the host, together with Italian Paolo Chiarino, Dane Sinne Lundgard and other swimmers from Austria and the Czech

Courtesy of Exploration Institute, Pacific Ocean. It has been 4 days that Ben Lecomte has not been able to swim due to squalls that have approached his path between Japan and California on The Swim. After reaching 583 nautical miles (1,080 km) off the coast of Japan, the weather and anticipated storms have required that

Courtesy of Red Bull Surf + Rescue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The lifeguards of Ocean City (New Jersey) won the Fourth Annual Red Bull Surf + Rescue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. But the entire competition was touch-and-go with an impending storm just offshore. “With the support of the U.S. Coast Guard, we were

Courtesy of WOWSA, North Channel. Californian Amy Appelhans Gubser has been on a tear over the last few years – swimming the Farallon Islands (relay), across the Strait of Gibraltar, in Lake Tahoe, across the Catalina Channel, 4 stages of the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge (twice), across the Santa Barbara Channel, the Border Buster in Lake

Courtesy of Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. After getting a taste of crossing the 19.5 km Tsugaru Channel on a six-person relay with Team Yajyu (チーム野獣 in Japanese or Team Beast in English) in July 2016, Tomonari Ogino started to think about a solo crossing. Almost two years to the day, Ogino’s