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Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History – Rome Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The World Open Water Swimming Association offers a series of talks about open water swimming. One series includes Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History. Not all the great moves in open water swimming history is done by swimmers. Escort […]
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We watch the ice swimmers of all ages and athletic background, but we still do not know how they do it. But they do in increasing numbers. The Pirita Open is a ice swimming festival held in the Pirita river in Tallinn, Estonia. With air temperatures and water temperatures down below freezing, the timing is
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The record holders of the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda read like the Who’s Who of professional marathon swimming. In the first edition of 1961, Carlos Larriera of Argentina set the original record in exactly 8 hours down the Coronda River. It took 13 years for someone to break that original mark. Fellow
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Steve White, known as the Swimming Gardener, is a British open water swimmer with lots of creative ideas for charity. The 43-year-old once swam 15 miles in a little over 10 hours through stormy seas from Littlehampton to Worthing and back. raised more than £13,000 in the process, mostly for The Chestnut Tree House Children’s
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Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History – Lac St-Jean Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The World Open Water Swimming Association offers a series of talks about open water swimming. One series includes Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History. This is Part 2. The professional marathon swimming world has seen innumerable great races
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Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History – Lake Michigan Courtesy of World Open Water Swimming Association. The World Open Water Swimming Association offers a series of talks about open water swimming. One series includes Great Moves In Open Water Swimming History. This is Part 1. We believe the greatest single tactical move during professional
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As people swim in more places around the world, many people are swimming in warm, tropical places as are the hordes of hardened swimmers are increasing in cold, temperate locations. We wonder how the new MSF Rules will handle certain issues, especially with swims in locations where swimmers come across coral reefs at low tide,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professor Hadar Aviram of the University of California Hastings College of the Law was all over the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Firstly, she completed a 6 km widthwise crossing of the Sea of Galilee a few years ago. Last December, she then completed the first lengthwise crossing of
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We had absolutely fascinating discussion and lunch with Juan Enriquez, a former swimmer and water polo teammate who was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project. He is written on global nucleotide data flow, gene research and national competitiveness, and was a member of Celera Genomics’s marine-based team that collected genetic
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Damián Blaum is on the cover of Argentina’s Fluir Natacion Magazine this month. And for good reason: he enjoys what he does and his attitude is about as positive as can be. Blaum grimaced and struggled throughout the 2013 season, but he always finished with a smile as he won the 2013 FINA Open Water
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