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“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to do things that men have tried,” said Amelia Earhart in 1937. “When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” With women’s ski jumping as an Olympic sport for the first time, now women get a chance to fly […]
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Daniel Takata Gomes is a statistician, professor and talented columnist and reporter of pool and open water swimming. Takata writes for and helps produce the SWIM Channel, the 2012 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year. On the writing side, Takata won the FINA Aquatics World Magazine international short story competition for the third
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With the large surf that is expected to hit the California coast this coming week, the Billbong V1 wetsuit (see below) might come in handy if you are caught between set of between 12-19 feet. Waves up to 12 feet are forecasted to hit the California shores next week with peak sets expected on Friday,
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We have traveled frequently with Egyptian Olympic coach, FINA official and long-time USA Swimming national team coach Rick Walker. He is an intense as he is comic. He is as organized as he is flexible. He is as compassionate as he is motivational. A former collegiate swimmer in Texas, he has led the Southern Illinois
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Today on the West Coast, the University of California Berkeley Bears and the Arizona State University Sun Devils collegiate dual swim meet was televised on the Pac-12 Network. Throughout the meet, Olympian Natalie Coughlin served as the television announcer as she was constantly mentioning how different swimmers from both universities were into open water swimming.
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FINIS, a world leader in technical swimming products, announces the sponsorship of New Zealand’s top open water swimmer, Kane Radford. Radford is training hard for his second consecutive Olympic quadrennial. In 2012, he was selected for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in the 2012 London Olympic Games, but he had to watch the event from
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Stéphane Lecat, Directeur de L’Eau libre for the Fédération Française de Natation is responsible for the discipline of open water swimming for the French Swimming Federation. Beginning in March 2013, Lecat, a former professional marathon swimmer, has seen his mission to organize open water swimming both on a developmental level and to provide access to
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How fast can they swim? In a 25-meter pool, elite French open water swimmers swam for over 3 miles in a hour. Professional marathon swimmer Aurélie Muller covered 5377.75 meters or 3.34 miles in an hour. World championship representative (in the 10 km and 25 km event) Axel Reymond (shown on left) covered 5784.15 meters
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Samantha Cowen is not only an open water swimming newbie, but also a true beginner to the world of aquatics. But yesterday she completed a swim from Robben Island in 10ºC (50ºF) like a real champ and veteran. The popular Johannesburg media personality trained with Roger Finch and her friend Caren Strydom train for the
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The Swimmer is a short film edited, narrated, scored and produced by Simon Banthorpe.
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