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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2020 Summer Olympic Games will be held in Tokyo. It will be the fourth Olympics held in Japan following the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1972 and 1998 Winter Olympics. The vast majority of athletes, coaches, trainers, medical staff, officials and administrators around the world do not understand spoken […]
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Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. Far, far away from the most renowned hotbeds of open water swimming, Phil White has created an unlikely mecca of open water swimming in Vermont. Through his relentless force of persuasion and countless hours of endless work in The Clubhous on the shore of Lake Memphremagog, he has
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Well before he died in 2000, Tonatiuh Gutiérrez Olguin was well-known in his native Mexico for his prolific work as an author, photographer, translator and editor of 118 publications in 4 languages ranging from art and history to biographies and pictorial works. But back in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, he was better
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas has the sharpest and most inquisitive scientific mind in aquatic sports in my opinion,” says Steven Munatones. “There is very good reason why he has worked with hundreds of Olympic medalists and thousands of elite competitive athletes in a wide variety of sports. He makes astute
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Courtesy of Dr. Angel Yanagihara, Alatalab Solutions, Hawaii. Anna Wardley recalled her excruciating experience when she attempted to swim 37 km between Menorca and Mallorca in Spain, “If you want to create a picture of pure hell, I was in it, with the cross-waves throwing the jellyfish against me in the dark and giving me
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Courtesy of Global Swim Series. The Global Swim Series includes 132 open water swimming competitions held in 36 countries. In the female non-wetsuit division, young Ciara Doran swam away with the 2017 Global Swim Series title – defending her title for the second consecutive year. 2017 Female Non-Wetsuit Division Top 10 Rankings 1. Ciara Doran
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Courtesy of Global Swim Series. The Global Swim Series includes 132 open water swimming competitions held in 36 countries. In the male non-wetsuit division, there is a tight season-ending competition that is culminating between Colin Lindsay, an architect from Ireland, and Michael Kenny of Quebec, Canada. The 40-something men have both participated in 13 races
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Courtesy of Global Swim Series, Patras, Greece. The Bridge Experience is a 1 km, 3 km and 5 km open water swimming event held near the 2.9 km Rion-Antirrio suspension bridge, the largest of its kind in the world. The event, held in Patras, Greece on June 2nd is around the Rion-Antirrio Bridge which connects
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Courtesy of Global Swim Series, San Clemente Beach, California. The San Clemente Ocean Festival is a typical California ocean swim: * with a start and/or finish by a landmark local pier * 1 mile or more in length * beach start and finish The 42nd annual San Clemente Ocean Festival offers a 1-mile swim, surf
Courtesy of Shelley Oates-Wilding, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. Hiroko Ashikawa, the first Japanese swimmer who is attempting the Oceans Seven, was very lucky to have Australian Shelley Oates-Wilding as her escort kayaker. Very lucky. During Ashikawa’s solo swim attempt across the Molokai Channel from Molokai to Oahu on April 1st, she was escorted by her Japanese
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