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Courtesy of Rick Madge, Swimming World Magazine. Rick Madge produces a number of analyses from the 2016 Rio Olympics for Swimming World Magazine. It is interesting to see how the open water swimming finalists tend to be a little bit older than their pool swimming colleagues. The average age of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim […]
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Jacques Tuset, Ned Denison, Jills Vanegas Escape Île St-Joseph Courtesy of Ned Denison and Gary Emich, Devil’s Island. Devil’s Island (French: île du Diable) is the third largest island of the Îles du Salut island group in the Atlantic Ocean, located 14 km (9 miles) off the coast of French Guiana in South America. The
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Stephen Junk heading toward the coast of Hokkaido shown below. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Junk took a while, but he finally crossed the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan off his Oceans Seven list. “Last year, I went to Japan to attempt the Tsugaru Channel swim. But, unfortunately, I got very bad food
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nora Toledano Cadena of Mexico City and Liz Fry of Connecticut completed a tandem swim across the Catalina Channel on August 23th. Their time was 12 hours 37 minutes as Fry achieved a rare Reverse Triple Crown and became one of only four Double Triplers in history. Toledano completed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After his 41 hour 44 minute two-way attempt of the English Channel, 50-year-old Mickey Helps remains in a hospital high dependency unit. His inspirational effort as part of The 3 Swims of Europe (Strait of Gibraltar + English Channel + Dardanelles) is being touted around the global community. After
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When Water Polo And Open Water Swimming Mix Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Even since Tom Burgess competed in both water polo and open water swimming, the two sports have been linked together with interesting personalities. Before Burgess became the second man to swim the English Channel in 22 hours 35 minutes in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Estonia’s Merle Liivand attempted to qualify for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim to compete in Rio de Janeiro, but she found her way to Rio nevertheless. After running a successful Mermaid-Motivation Clinic held in Rio during the Olympics, Liivand competed in Florida’s Swim Miami. For the second year in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Life is like a wave. You cannot change how it breaks, only how you ride it,” said the 21-year-old Ryan Alea Young before her passing in a car accident in 2009. The Pier-2-Pier Race is a 2-mile point-to-point ocean swim in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina held in memory of
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