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Courtesy of Blair Cannon of La Jolla, California. Blair Cannon explains, “There is a US$100 minimum per person for the Swim 24 Challenge in La Jolla, California that you’ll either pay yourself or fund raise through friends and family. The more you fund-raise, the more perks you will receive on event day, so we encourage […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 60th edition of La Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean announced the 24 athletes from 15 countries for its 2014 race. There are two big underlying stories on the 34 km race in Quebec, Canada: Can former water polo player Tomi Stefanovski of Macedonia repeat his come-from-behind victory at
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jonathan Knott, a UK-based journalist who has written about travel and swimming for publications including the Guardian, the Telegraph and H2Open Magazine. Knott has launched Swimming-holidays.co.uk providing information and advice on swimming holidays across the world. Knott explains, “The website focuses on organised swimming holidays, which are divided into
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was a childhood dream. Renowned rugby player Rosie Foley completed a 39.32 km unprecedented crossing of Lough Derg in Ireland in 13 hours 10 minutes. “It was the longest mid-summer swim on the longest day,” recalls the renowned Irish athlete. “I am delighted to finally be the first
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Andrew Magness [shown on left], race director of the 36-mile END-WET swim from North Dakota to Minnesota, is not a swimmer but an adventure/endurance athlete in his own right. But when he observes the open water swimmers handle the Red River of the North, he is suitably impressed. “In
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dmitry Blokhin, Deputy Chairperson of Murmansk City Committee of Physical Culture and Sport, reported some great news for ice swimmers around the world. “The Head of Murmansk City Alexei Veller and Ram Barkai from South Africa signed a Declaration on Cooperation between the Murmansk City Municipality and the International
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Bob West is a wonderful man and a true inspiration,” says friend and fellow ocean swimmer Barbara Held. “He gives unselfishly of himself to help any and all who express an interest in swimming long or short.” West‘s development as a swimmer was delayed to say the least. “When
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matías Ola, a renowned ice swimmer and a Nadador Extremo from Argentina who was part of the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year in the Bering Strait, is hosting a new extreme swimming competition in his native Argentina. The Unir el Mundo event (or the International
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. During onshore starts to many ocean and sea swims, we often observe the fastest athletes taking long, long strides down the beach rather than short, choppy strides. If the top athletes naturally run with long strides in a competitive environment, we wonder if there is some innate advantage to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. French Creek Racing completed its Tuesday Night Series #2 race in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania as part of the Upper Merion Open Water Swim Series. The water temperature dramatically increased and the currents significantly decreased for the second stage of the 800m sprint series in the Schuylkill River. John Kenny, Founder
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