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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aquatic adventurer Charlotte Brynn has another border crossing swim coming up on July 24th. “I am super excited about this 16.6-mile circumnavigation of Île Ronde in Québec, Canada. The out-and-back course on Lake Memphremagog starts and finishes on the American side of the border in Newport, Vermont. “I will […]
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Courtesy of Borut Strel, Šibenik, Croatia. 22 swimmers from around the global entered World War II submarine tunnels built by the Germans under the watchful eye of Borut Strel of Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ben Barham of the Lake Geneva Swimming Association announced that Mark Sheridan became the first British athlete to successfully complete a 69 km crossing of Lake Geneva. His swim of 33 hours 6 minutes placed him 54th in history’s 24-Hour Club: Members of the 24-Hour Club compiled by the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Three-time Olympic medalist Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Japanese 2-time Olympian Yasunari Hirai were training at high altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona with coach Bill Rose of the Mission Viejo Nadadores. How fast do these athletes train for their upcoming Olympic 10K Marathon Swim final in Copacabana Beach at the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the recent article entitled Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, Whose Better?, this publication focused on the two leading candidates of the Republican and Democratic parties. In the open water world, Trump interacted with professional marathon swimmers of the 1980s and 1990s while Clinton interacted with Diana Nyad. But
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Not only is the New York Open Water team organizes a new circumnavigation swim around Manhattan Island (see the 20 Bridges Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan ), but race directors David Barra, Rondi Davies, and Alex Arévalo also are adding a new marathon swim on their calendar. The Spuyten Duyvil
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the Olympic fever starts to build for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Olympians are also cumulating their final preparations after a long 4-year training cycle since the 2012 London Olympic Games. Time and time again, we see rivals in the open water train together. The camaraderie they share is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tom Fristoe, a retired marathon swimmer, has always been a hard worker whether it was in the classroom at Long Beach State University, in the swimming pool at a 400 IM’er and distance freestyler, in the open water as a marathon swimmer, or in Silicon Valley as a successful
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Courtesy of David Barra, New York Open Water. The 20 Bridges Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan is on. “On behalf of New York Open Water, I would like to introduce 20 Bridges, a Circumnavigation Swim of Manhattan,” announced David Barra. For years, NYC Swim has been unfailingly organizing swims around the waters surrounding Manhattan Island including
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Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, Whose Better?/h2> Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American citizens have either an easy or difficult choice regarding who to vote for as their next President: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.* Who do the American people want as their next president, a billionaire outsider or a political insider? Like every
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