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Oussama Mellouli made two communities happy with his gold medal marathon swim victory in the Serpentine today: his native country of Tunisia and his adopted USC (University of Southern California) family in America. His brilliant strategy throughout the 10,000m swim combined with his powerful strokes on the last two loops led to a dominant victory […]
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With the conclusion of the Olympic marathon swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were several surprises and positive outcomes that resulted. 1. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia (1:49:55.1) powered to an Olympic victory, giving Tunisia and Africa its first Olympic marathon swimming gold. His participation is also adequate evidence that open water swimming does
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The men’s Olympic marathon swim gold medalists are quite remarkable. First there was Maarten van der Weijden who won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not only was his athletic victory dramatic, so too was his life story. van der Weijden remains the only Olympic gold medalist in history to have captured gold
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Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Eva Risztov of Hungary are the 2012 London Olympics Games marathon swimming champions. Both athletes swam courageous, gutsy swims and they deserve the global accolades coming their way. While they did not swim together, they did swim under similar conditions in nearly identical water temperatures in a carefully marked course
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There are many valid reasons why Great Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne is the odds-on favorite to capture gold in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim tomorrow at 12 noon GMT in the Serpentine. These reasons vary from mental to physical, but also include a variety of other elements that may not be readily apparent, but are just
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Melissa Gorman, a serious contender for the gold in the Olympic marathon swim today in the Serpentine, has some serious fans cheering for her. Like many other swimmers from around the world, the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters have followed their loved ones to London. There are no greater fans. The weather is
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Below is the start list for the women’s race. The start positions were randomly drawn at yesterday’s technical meeting. The women will line up at the start in these positions at 12 noon GMT today. Follow insider analysis and color commentary at @openwatersource and Olympic marathon swimming. 1. Angela Maurer (GER) 2. Erika Villaecija (ESP)
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The land and on-the-water security will be tight at today’s Olympic marathon swim. Follow the race via tweets here and color commentary by Open Water Source here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Expect The Unexpected – Risztov Éva Takes Marathon Gold Courtesy of WOWSA, Serpentine, London, UK. Expect the unexpected is the mantra of open water swimming and it was never more true than today. Risztov Éva of Hungary took control of the womens’s Olympic marathon swimming 10km during the second half and powered on to a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Haley Anderson, a 20-year-old college senior at the University of Southern California, just missed out on the gold medal by 4 tenths of a second at today’s Olympic marathon swimming 10km in Hyde Park. Outsprinted at the end by Hungary’s Eva Risztov, Haley Anderson played to her strengths and
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