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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the eyes of the swimming world at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games will be on athletes like Michael Phelps, the attention of the swimming community is smaller, less renowned swimming nations will be on their own athletic representatives in Rio de Janeiro beginning on August 5th. 20-year-old Geoffrey […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. All good things come to an end, especially when it involves an athlete’s career. Alex Meyer, a 2012 London Olympian and 2010 FINA world 25 km champion, will end his competitive career at the 62nd Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, a 32 km professional marathon swim in Roberval, Quebec,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 24th Marathon de la relève Rio Tinto is part of the Coupe Espoir Canada Carrossier ProColor, a 10 km race for 14 to 26 year olds. The race ends in the same location as the 62nd Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Quebec, Canada. Over the decades,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The English Channel is often referred to as the Mount Everest of open water swimming. But there are more difficult channel swims than the English Channel. The Molokai Channel is one of those mightily difficult channels. While the water in the English Channel is much colder, athletes swimming between
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. People ask what are the best vantage points to watch the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on Copacabana Beach, which is one of the few sports in the Olympics that will have a combination of paid seating and free standing-room only sections. But Copacabana Beach is a relatively flat, but
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Seat in a window seat while flying into the LAX International Airport, the Long Beach Airport (LGB) or the John Wayne Airport (SNA) and you will see innumerable swimming pools of all shapes and sizes on a clear day. Outdoor swimming pools dot not only the suburbs of Southern
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like Canadian teammate Stéphanie Horner, Philippe Guertin took a major step by winning 10 km race at the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup at Lac St. Jean (Traversee international du Lac St-Jean). And like Horner in the women’s race, Guertin, another Quebec native, won the men’s race in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If there was a race on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit for Stéphanie Horner to win, Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean is it. And if this is a good time to start winning 10 km races, now is the time as Horner is prepping for the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Citius – Altius – Fortius (Latin). Faster – Higher – Stronger (English) is the Olympic motto first stated by a Dominican priest Henri Didon at a school sports event in 1881 and adopted by the International Olympic Committee. With the increasingly global impact of money and fame on athletes,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimming World Magazine, CBC News and several other media outlets reported that American Adam Ellenstein established a Guinness World Record for the fastest non-stop lengthwise open water swim of a Canadian lake with his VictorySwim105 this week. The 39-year-old triathlete from Detroit, Michigan, completed a 105 km (65-mile) swim
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