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Like the epic boxing matches between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, Chad Ho and Troy Prinsloo went blow-for-blow and culminated the aQuellé Midmar Mile with the most exciting race ever. As the men swam stroke for stroke, it was the epitome of a mano-a-mano battle. “The way Chad had been swimming I knew it was […]
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Ashley Twichell, fresh off winning the richest race for professional marathon swimmers in Western Australia at the Swim the Swan 10 km, flew from one continent to another to face several young and veteran swimmers at the aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa. Her main competitor, Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne, was admittedly focused on
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Andrew Martens of RC Helicam brings aerial images to the spectators at the aQuellé Midmar Mile and highlight reels to the media via his custom-built, market-leading quadcopter. Martens has been leading the revolution of aerial imagery in the open water world with his RC Helicam quadcopter for years now. Every year, for two straight days
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50 swimmers will take to the Cold Half in Hong Kong pitting themselves against 3 open water swimming stalwarts: 3-time German national 25 km champion Benjamin Konschak and two former University of California Berkeley Bears: the global-trotting Ned Denison of Sandycove Island [Ireland] and two-time Olympian Hannah Wilson of Hong Kong. “This year’s weather looks
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Admiral Robert “Rusty” Higgs leads from the front, especially at the aQuellé Midmar Mile which he has done four times. “This year was fantastic. I could see the bottom. From the national defenses side, we have over 200 soldiers and navy here participating in the aQuellé Midmar Mile. Swimming and doing stuff in the water
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The ILDSA 2013 Awards ceremony, hosted by Camlough Lake Water Festival Team and Newry and Mourne District Council in the Sean Hollywood Arts Centre, were attended by the over 100 guests including the Alison Streeter MBE and Kevin Murphy.
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Jason Dunford is a butterfly and freestyle sprinter from Stanford University and Nairobi, Kenya. While Stanford churns out world-class swimmers like it does engineers and entrepreneurs, Nairobi is much less renowned in developing swimmers. But Dunford, who finaled at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, is dramatically changing that equation. He has won gold medals at
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Sean Conway did a relatively simple charity swim with the 8-mile Charity Club at the aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa this weekend. It was fun, he was smiling and the weather was great. Very unlike his adventure swim along the length of Great Britain that took him 135 days in total, including 45 non-swimming
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Dave Smith and Kripa Varanasi of LiquiGlide in Cambridge, Massachusetts may inadvertently change the worlds of aquatics and marine sports. Imagine a world without foggy goggles, where every goggle lens is clear. That would be a great gift to open water swimmers, triathletes, pool swimmers, water polo players, synchronized swimmers, scuba divers, skin divers and
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Not only is it a spectacle to see over 15,000 swimmers arrive from all over South Africa and the globe gather at the aQuellé Midmar Mile in South Africa, but it is also a wonder to observe the small army of staff and volunteers who help put the world’s largest competitive open water swimming event
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