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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Boguslaw Ogrodnik knows how weather can affect an endurance event. The Polish swimmer, lawyer and mountaineer from Wrocław is a member of the Peak and Pond Challenge, an exclusive club of adventurers who have successfully summitted Mount Everest and also swam across the English Channel. Ogrodnik dealt with weather […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 47th International Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim (Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac or Peace Race) is a 19 km marathon swim that has been unfailingly held during times of international sanctions, war and peace along the River Sava in Šabac, Serbia. Duje Milan of Croatia won this year’s race in 2 hours
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Courtesy of Catalina Channel Swimming Federation, Catalina Channel, California. Organizing a channel swim for one swimmer is time-consuming and complicated enough. Organizing a channel swim for 21 swimmers is significantly even more so. But bring 21 veteran open water swimmers together and they handle the logistics of getting everyone from the California mainland to Santa
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Prabhat Raju Koli, a student of Atomic Energy Junior College in Mumbai, India, continues to travel the world, tackling one channel at a time. The 17-year-old added the Catalina Channel to his list of impressive marathon swims today with a 10 hour 30 minute crossing. With Sally Minty-Gravett from
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Photos courtesy of USA Today at the 2016 Rio Olympics and Associated Press at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Of all the Olympic sports, swimmers are generally considered among the most educated, genial and cordial of all athletes. Many open water swimmers, including several Olympic marathon swimmers, have advanced degrees and doctorates. Swimmers, with few exceptions,
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Courtesy of Will Hobson of the Washington Post who wrote an eye-opening expose about who gets paid what in the Olympic movement in an article entitled Olympic executives cash in on a ‘Movement’ that keeps athletes poor. Hobson writes, “Every morning, a crowd of IOC members and volunteers gathered in a hotel room in London
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Courtesy of Protriathlon.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Haley Anderson and Yasunari Hirai practice with others, including multiple Olympic gold medalist Rebecca Soni, from California to Santos, Brazil in the build-up to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim next week in Copacabana Beach. Hirai is shown standing in front of the large poster of local Santos favorite Ana
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kerry Yonushonis completed her Catalina Channel crossing today in 11 hours 27 minutes. Her crossing (Kerry Swims For Dyslexia) was part of a Bicoastal Aquathon that includes the Bicoastal Relay Team that comprises of dyslexic students who swam a 4.2-mile relay along the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts
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Global Media Attention On Open Water Swimmers Explodes Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The amount of information that is being posted, printed, and published about the Olympic open water swimmers in Rio de Janeiro is stunning in its scope and frequency. Reporters are covering these open water athletes from a variety of angles: their
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