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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. President Clinton once described the Hay Festival in Wales as ‘the Woodstock of the Mind.’ With speakers such as Bear Grylls, Cherie Blair, Hugh Masekela, Dame Judy Dench, Sol Cambell, and Stephen Fry, open water swimmer Lewis Pugh will be among many well-spoken and well-respected peers. Pugh will be […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The BCNSwim Open is a 1.5 km open water swimming event in Barcelona, Spain. Held on July 13th, the course goes from the docks of the Port Forum to the Port Forum beach. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On June 3rd, six swimmers will depart the Sueño Bay near La Paz, Mexico in an attempt to swim across the Sea of Cortez. The Sueño Six are trying to swim from the Baja California peninsula to the mainland of Mexico, a distance of 88 nautical miles (101 miles
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lake Powell, seen from above, is site of Britney Spears’ I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman video as well as Martin Strel‘s 4-day open water swimming holiday tours and camps. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Oak Streeters, a pod of open water swimmers in Laguna Beach, California, swims in a near paradise. Clear, cool waters between Los Angeles and San Diego greet the the swimmers year-round in Laguna Beach. Sandy bottoms form innumerable ripples and patterns that can mesmerize a swimmer. Throw in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Olympic swimmer Kiko Hervás is favored in the first edition of the Costa Brava Open Water Swimming Championship that will be held along the spectacular landscape of El Castell beach and the dazzling beach of La Fosca in Palamós, Spain. Beginning on May 25th, the Palamós Challenge will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Adam Walker, known as Mad Adam, and his protective pod of dolphins in the Cook Strait continue to be an online hit with over 4.4 million views on YouTube (see below): From being featured on Japanese television to being shown in Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia and America, the personable
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic open water swimming debuted in a rowing basin in Beijing and was then showcased in the equally calm Serpentine in London. Next the Olympic 10 km marathon swim will be held in potentially rough water in Copacabana Beach during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Next will come the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Due to the City of San Diego’s La Jolla Cove renovation project and new Lifeguard Tower construction, the 84th La Jolla Rough Water Swim will be cancelled this year. Originally, the City’s construction schedule was projected to be complete before the September 7th event, but construction has been delayed.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the 30 adventurists at the first leg of the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge in Arizona, the who’s who of the marathon swimming world participated. All are ambassadors of aquatics, emissaries of endurance, operatives of the open water. These people mean business. Everyone is special, but there was one
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