Courtesy of Inside The Games. At the Tokyo 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the cycling road races (270 km for men + 143 km for women) will finish near Mount Fuji after starting in Tokyo. The cyclists will pass Lake Yamanaka and will ascend part of Mount Fuji before concluding at the Fuji Speedway. Locals describe

The Swim across the English Channel from Film House. In order to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the British Limbless Ex-Service Men’s Association, British single leg amputees Stephen White, Jamie Gillespie, Craig Howarth, and Conrad Thorpe completed a 12 hour 14 minute crossing of the English Channel. The British military veterans were the first relay

Courtesy of Lewis Pugh Foundation, South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. “I hate swimming in ice cold water,” said Lewis Pugh who frequently swims in water at, near or below 0°C in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica. The lawyer-turned-ocean advocate, author and speaker does his incredibly dramatic expeditions in order to gain public awareness and

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Simon Holliday never seems to take a vacation. He is constantly busy either training for or setting marathon swimming records in and around Hong Kong Island and doing good with his new learn-to-swim foundation. He founded a charity called the Splash Foundation which helps Filipino and Indonesian domestic helpers

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “What Oussama Mellouli did in 2012 London Olympic Games will most likely never be replicated again,” predicted Steven Munatones. “Ous not only won a gold medal in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim – a first for Tunisia in a highly strategic race in the Serpentine, but it was also

Courtesy of Sigrid Thomas, Münster, Germany. Perhaps the most cost-effective swim in the world is the Münster Day & Night 24 Stunden – Schwimmen in Germany. For €8 per entry, swimmers can participate in the Das 24-Stunden-Open-Air-Schwimmen Münster Day & Night, a 24-hour open water swimming competition for distance held in Münster, organized by Tauchsportclub