Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professor Patrick McKnight thinks big. He made two attempts at climbing Mount Everest in 2014 and 2015, and then turned his focus on completing the fastest Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in history. He accomplished his goal on Monday at the 20 Bridges Circumnavigation of Manhattan when he […]

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Ferry Weertman won the most dramatic race possible on Copacabana Beach as he led a chase pack to catch Australia’s Jarrod Poort on the last lap of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim this afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. Poort led by as much as

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Ferry Weertman is going to dramatically pass Jarrod Poort at the men’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and take the lead on the last lap with only 1000 meters to go. For the final Olympic 10K Marathon Swim results and recounting of the dramatic finish,

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Jarrod Poort‘s lead had grown to 1 minute 15 seconds, but as the men head into the fourth and final lap, the trailing pack has chopped his lead to 40 seconds. There is a sense of urgency among the chase group as they are

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Soon after the men passed the 5 km halfway mark at today’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, they started to give chase to leader Jarrod Poort of Australia. The stroke rate and kick beat of all the swimmers

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. In the 2004 FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Great Britain’s Alan Bircher famously sprinted out to the lead – eventually establishing over a 2-minute lead in the 10 km race. Bircher sprinted out to the lead and kept

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Expect the unexpected is the mantra of open water swimmers. And it happened to Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil in yesterday’s women’s 10 km marathon race when her feeding stick was hit by a competitor at the feeding pontoon three times during the four-loop

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. As Jarrod Poort of Australia completed the first lap in 28 minutes 41 seconds in a commanding lead, many of rest of the pre-race medal favorites are taking the race pace of Poort into stride. American Jordan Wilimovsky sits in 21st place swimming comfortably,

Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Jarrod Poort of Australia sprint out to the front in an incredibly risky strategy as the men’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim has begun on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. But Oussama Mellouli, the defending Olympic champion, is also uncharacteristically taking off after Poort.