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At the United States Aquatics Sports Convention, administrators, coaches, and athletes from the different aquatic disciplines of pool swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming, diving, water polo, and masters swimming get together to discuss the past, present and future of aquatics in America. During the opening day, the first of several open water swimming committee […]
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic 10K Marathon Swim was in a flat-water rowing basin. The 2012 London Olympic 10K Marathon Swim was in the flat-water Serpentine, a man-made lake in London. But the 2016 Rio Olympics will be in Copacabana Beach, facing the unpredictable Atlantic Ocean. The conditions can be rough and bumpy; turbulent and lumpy;
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Kimberly Chambers has done the Cook Strait between the North and South Islands of New Zealand, the Molokai Channel between Oahu and Molokai Islands in Hawaii, the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco, and the Catalina Channel from Catalina Island to the California mainland. Next up: the English Channel, her #5 on her journey
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Donald Watkinds has been the race announcer of the biggest and longest continuously running open water race in America, the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in California. “I have been announcing La Jolla since 1971 together with Florence Chadwick was also swimming the event and have been announcing for a long time.” In a few
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Javier Gutierrez became the fourth Mexican and the 77th person overall to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. On Facebook, Gutierrez writes about his 11 hour 39 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel on Monday, “It has been one of the most difficult swims of my life. I swam the first 6 hours
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Courtney Moates Paulk completed the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 2011, traversed the English Channel in 2012, and like clockwork, crossed the Catalina Channel in 2013. 1-2-3…like a eloquently-drafted legal brief, the Virginia attorney plotted her travels and scheduling well. She was focused on her goal of achieving the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
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Ron Collins became the 79th person to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Although he had complete the English Channel and Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, he had become hypothermic on his first attempt of the Catalina Channel and had to get out. For his second attempt at the Catalina Channel, he grew a
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With the cameras rolling by Reuters and reporters from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Associated Press, CNN, and other media outlets on the line, 15 representatives of the marathon swimming community asked over 3 hours of questions of and to Diana Nyad and her support team regarding her swim from Cuba to Florida.
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Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, Rick Gaenzle Cross Tsugaru Courtesy of WOWSA, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Ocean Navi‘s Masayuki Moriya filmed the American three-man relay team of Chris Kraus, Brian Ross, and Rick Gaenzle successfully cross the Tsugaru Channel. The trio swam gracefully over their swim streamers (sarashi in Japanese) alongside Captain Mizushima’s boat. Copyright © 2008
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Oceans Seven swimmers often underestimate the “English Channel of the Far East“. With only 19 km separating its closest two points, the Tsugaru Channel is considered one of the easiest Oceans Seven channels. Even from the cliffs overlooking the Tsugaru Channel things below look calm. But underneath that calm are so terrifically strong eddies and
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