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Expect the unexpected is the well-known mantra of open water swimmers. But the concept was also an issue in the women’s 100m breaststroke yesterday in London when an equipment malfunction surprised the field and officials. The audio beep of the starter was heard but only American Breeja Larson dove into the water. The audience gasped […]
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As open water swimmers anxiously wait for the conditions in the English Channel, Cook Strait, Strait of Gibraltar, Molokai Channel and Tsugaru Channel to become calm enough to make an attempt, we are reminded of many instances of the 4-year waits that many Olympic hopefuls undergo. Day after day, month after month, year after year,
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Is it just us – or would it not be totally cool to swim the Olympic canoe slalom course? We want to swim with a helmet and knee pads, but we’d like to give the white-water course a try. Thinking out loud, it would be exciting to swim through the gates and navigate the currents
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Jamie Patrick of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society certified three successful crossings of Lake Tahoe last weekend: On July 27th, North Channel conqueror Craig Lenning of Denver, Colorado swam in the north to south direction in 11 hours 0 minutes 26 seconds. The following day, Morgan Christian of San Diego, California swam in the south
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It might be a stretch, but 100m butterfly champion Dana Vollmer at the London Olympics may kick-started her Olympic victory and world record in Fiji. After a gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Olympics, Vollmer missed out at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. As can be expected, the disappointment was crushing.
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Despite the race being broadcast live in 72 countries, most of America was unaware of the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim during the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the post-euphoria of the Phelps Phenomenon. But the swimming landscape is much different now. Many sports fans have now heard of the words marathon swimming, channel swimming and open
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Piloted by Lance Oram, six U.S. Masters Swimming women – Amanda Mercer, Jenny Sutton Jalet, Bethany Williston, Emily Kreger, Susan Butcher, and Melissa Karjala – set a new standard for a 6-person all-female two-way crossing of the English Channel in 18 hours 55 minutes 20 seconds on Saturday. They enjoyed the “hardest, longest day of
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With American swimmer and Harvard University graduate Alex Meyer soon stepping up to the shores of the Serpentine in the Olympic marathon swimming 10km, both for himself and in memory of Fran Crippen, the issue of safety in the open water swimming and triathlon communities have been discussed at different levels. On July 27th, FINA
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Most sports fans know that cyclists shave their legs while pool swimmers shave their entire bodies for competitions. But what do open water swimmers do? It depends. One size does not fit all in the open water swimming world. From training habits to feeding, open water swimmers follow an exceeding wide range of parameters. And
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FINA’s Sports Medicine Committee created a video that addresses the prevention of shoulder injuries in swimming. The video is was a collaborative effort of several of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee members but it was conceptualized by FINA Sports Medicine Committee member Dr. Jim Miller. The video stemmed from FINA injury research at the 2009
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