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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Canada, Mexico and the United States announced a joint bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup at a press conference earlier this week in New York City. CONCACAF and Canadian Soccer Association president Victor Montagliani, United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati, and Mexican Football Federation president Decio de […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ger Kennedy continues to push the limits of what he can do physiologically and psychologically. He nearly reached his limit with his most recent 12-hour Sea Swim Challenge in Forty Foot on the southern tip of Dublin Bay at Sandycove, County Dublin, Ireland. People have been swimming year-round in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Follow the 22.3 km Apolima Strait Swim to the finish on the AMOA Resort Livetracker here on April 11th, live from Samoa. The participants will start in the following heats: 5:00 am – Tiffany McQueen and Robin Rose 6:00 am – Christina Harris 6:15 am – Tony McLean and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Batchelder completed the first butterfly crossing of the 24-mile (38.6 km) Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in 14 hours 41 minutes on April 2nd. “It was quite the swim. Anyone who has completed a swim of 24 miles, regardless of stroke, has done something incredible,” admitted the humble mathematician
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Courtesy of FORCE BLUE TEAM. “FORCE BLUE is a unique program that trains military veterans on coral restoration underwater projects,” explains Bruckner Chase. “They are doing their first deployment later this month in Grand Cayman.” The idea for FORCE BLUE grew out of a dive trip that co-founders Jim Ritterhoff and Rudy Reyes took with
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Photo courtesy of Joss Hernández. “Yo sola no puedo cambiar el mundo, pero puedo lanzar la piedra que produzca muchas ondas en las aguas,” said Madre Teresa.* So begins the Nado Panamericano Colibrí article by Mariel Hawley of Mexico about her participation in the 10 km Pan-American Colibrí Swim from Imperial Beach, California to Playas
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Courtesy of Abhejali Bernardova, Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team. Abhejali Bernardova of the Czech Republic shares her thoughts during her 21 hour 52 minute crossing of the Molokai Channel here.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Darren Turner is an Australian pool and open water swimmer who had a great year in 1989 in which he was named the 1989 World Long Distance Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine. Turner won the 1989 5 km Yarra Super Swim in Melbourne, Australia, then won
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi‘s next World Iron Swim will call the Tunisian swimmer to pull a SONOTRAK ship weighing over 1000 tons in Sfax, Tunisia on May 22nd. Ridha Ammar, Chairman and CEO of SONOTRAK, and Slim Tissaoui, Governor of Sfax, are in full support of this unprecedented boat pull. “There
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