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At the Olympics and international competitions, the American swimmers receive swim caps with their names printed on them. American Lexie Kelly received the same treatment by Aquadeus, a French company. “I feel like it’s a bit egotistical with my name on it, but the design is cool and Aquadeus has cute stuff. Their training suits […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Phil White of Kingdom Games and Christian Vachon of the Fondation Christian Vachon announced a partnership to raise money for the Fondation. Kingdom Games organizes 13 days of open water swimming, 5 days of running, 14 days of cycling, 2 days of triathlons, 5 days of kayaking and 4
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Ventre competed in the 450m endurance swim in 10:21 (see results here) at the recent Winter Swimming Championships. The British marathon swimmer talks about his experience in Rovaniemi, Finland. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: : For a swimmer from Botswana, that was some 450m winter swim. How
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Jacqueline Galway reports on a spring day in Carlingford Lough, Ireland, “Some took a short dip, others took a dive in and swam a mile or so – the makings of a great Spring day in Carlingford Lough.” Photo courtesy of Aidan Trainor. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
American marathon swimmer Darren Miller talks about his winter swimming in Finland here. “It all happened so fast, I just remember pushing off (we were not allowed to streamline, so it was a quick get up and go) and began swimming as hard as I could. Again, I didn’t seem to notice the pain, however
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The legend of Laura Val is well-known in the global masters swimming community. But her mind-shifting, epoch-making approach to swimming improvement over one’s lifetime bears telling. Val grew up in Mountain View, California and realized success early. She made two USA Olympic Swimming Trials, a USA Swimming National Team
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The battle continued lap after lap for an hour. 60 minutes of competition conducted silently, across time zones in separate pools and at different times, but 49-year-old Ricardo Valdivia of Gulliver Swim Club won the men’s 45-49 age group at the 2014 Speedo One Hour Postal National Championship held
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lucky Meisenheimer, open water curator of the upcoming Easter Sunrise Service/Pancake Breakfast and Lake Swim on April 20th in Lane Cane in Orlando, Florida sees the same thing year after year in his backyard lake. “We can tell it’s Spring when the swimmers return to Lake Cane.” Donations and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 2009, Meekrat Films produced a 55-minute documentary on Frank Chalmers‘s attempt at crossing the Pentland Firth, an 8-mile stretch of water between the northern Scottish mainland the the Orkney Islands. The Firth was successfully swum by Colleen Blair two years later. But the documentary – called Crossing
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 5 km Argentine Open Water Swimming Championships (Campeonato Argentino de Aguas Abiertas) were held in March in the Río Uruguay from Cruce Salto – Concordia. Aquiles Balaudo (49:37) and Stephanie Romero Serwatka (51:43) took top honors among the 200+ participants, a repeat of their earlier victories in the
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