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Courtesy of Bob Placak, RCP Tiburon Mile, California. Comcast Sportsnet broadcast the RCP Tiburon Mile today in the Bay Area. “This year’s race was the most competitive one yet with the winners finishing a mere seconds from each other,” said race founder Bob Placak about the 6:30 pm broadcast. “Relive the excitement, drama and fierce […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “He loved swimming the Lake Berryessa Swim and other local swims,” said Olympic swim coach Chris Morgan of Dr. Rand Schaal, a professor and swimmer on the masters swimming program at UC Davis. “He was a great guy who was passionate about swimming.” It showed. Among his numerous philanthropic
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Article about Nora Toledano Cadena, courtesy of Tom Morgenstern of Revista Open Swim. Nora Toledano Cadena talks about the mental aspects of open water swimming in Revista Open Water (see La larga distancia requiere más fuerza mental que física). Toledano is a Mexican marathon swimmer who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of
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Article about Matías Ola courtesy of Tom Morgenstern of Revista Open Swim. Matías Ola talks about the physical and nutritional preparations for cold water swims in Revista Open Water (see Fisiología y nutrición para nadadores de aguas frías by here by nutritionist Jordi Sarola). Ola and his tandem swim partner Jackie Cobell performed a bit
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Courtesy of Ocean Recovery Alliance, Malibu Foundation, Spectral Q with photos and video from Sean Bayliss, Danny and Alastair Gray in Hong Kong. Over 800 children, teachers and volunteers brought back Lap Sap Chung, Hong Kong’s mythical cryptozoological creature – a legendary trash monster, in a message to the world that plastic pollution endangers marine
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. En route to becoming the first person to complete the Oceans Seven, Stephen Redmond not only put in the swimming miles, but also he put in the air miles in a tough schedule that boggles the mind. Not only did Redmond travel to and from Japan a few times
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Creator Kate Webber and 435 Kickstarter backers gave US$36,379 to help develop the Kim Swims documentary. Protagonist Kimberley Chambers is in San Diego, California speaking in front of over 10,000 people, performing a stand-up gig with comedian and actor Jordan Peele. Peele is best known for starring in the
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A ferry boat named after ISHOF and IMSHOF dual inductee Shelley Taylor-Smith keeps plugging away along the Swan River in Western Australia.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, stage swimmers British Ben Hooper and American Jennifer Figge are waiting anxiously for their transoceanic swims to start. Weather is causing delays on both sides of the Atlantic. Figge and her escort captain Tamas Hamor decided to take shelter Cape Canaveral on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steph Saullo talks about her recommendations for open water swimmers in the current episode of the 2016 Global Swimming Summit organized by Chris Ritter who will host the 2016 Global Swimming Summit. “People usually are short on calories before an event,” observes the Performance Dietician at Ritter Sports Performance.
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