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Lewis Pugh will speak at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment in Sochi, Russia on November 1st. The International Olympic Committee is organizing the Conference in partnership with the United Nations. The Conference is supported by the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, the Russian Olympic Committee, and Sochi 2014 Organisation under […]
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Jan Urbaniak is shown sitting with Christine Jennings at the 19.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon with his blue rubber gloves on, just after applying his anti-chafing ointment. There are great hopes for the young Polish swimmers. Andrzej Kowalski, President of Polish Swimming Union, said, “The BCT Gdynia Marathon is a great event, not only by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We do not think the water temperature at a potential ice swim at the Winter Olympics needs to be a specific water temperature. The water could be near 0ºC or 3ºC or 5ºC or even higher. The dramatic visuals of swimsuit-only athletes, protected by only their own hardened bioprene,
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255 swimmers swam at the 2013 Camlough Lake Water Festival at Camlough Lake in Ireland. 146 swimmers competed in the Lord & Lady of the Lake and another 109 participated in the Camlough Lake night swim. For a 2.7 km stretch of water, there was a whole lotta swimming going on. The Camlough Lake Water
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270 open water swimmers took to the beautiful waters at the Swim the Costa Brava event. It was the culmination of a dream for Daniel Pagés, the event’s Technical Director. The roots of his dream started at the age of 4 in Badalona (Barcelona), Spain where he began swimming in the same pools where Spanish
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Graeme Lowe of Jersey achieved the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming this August when he completed his final leg in the Pacific Ocean. His resume is quite impressive with the English Channel (13 hours 35 minutes, 2011), Jersey-France (7:43, 2011), Round Jersey circumnavigation (10:17, 2010), Manhattan Island Marathon Swim (8:33, 2012), and the Catalina
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Thomas Lurz has trained for and enjoyed an extremely successful year with 4 medals at the 2013 FINA World Championships. But he wants more and there is seemingly no slowing down the German juggernaut. Lurz is traveling to China for the last two legs on the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup professional circuit in
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When open water swimming races are cancelled, it is a major decision for the race director and safety officer(s) as well as the vendors, sponsors, and volunteers. Races can be cancelled or postponed due to marine life, winds, currents, tides, lightning, waves, pollution, or a host of other factors. In World Open Water Swimming Association
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Emily Brunemann is traveling westward to compete in the Far East where she hopes to capture her first overall FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup title with races in Shantou, China and Hong Kong. The Shantou leg is this coming September 29th and the Hong Kong leg is on October 5th. Brunemann holds a commanding
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