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The Waikiki Roughwater Swim always brings out great competition from swimmers around the Pacific Rim nations with occasional visitors from South America or Europe. But the 2013 version will feature the first time that a swimmers from the African continent will be favored. And for a good reason. Three-time Olympic medalist from the 1500m to […]
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After Darren Miller finished his North Channel crossing and achieved his Oceans Seven goal, he kept busy. “I just finished up radio interviews and television interviews via Skype – the words just don’t flow as smoothly after today,” described Miller. It was an incredible day out on the North Channel. The weather was overcast and
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Nothing in the English Channel is guaranteed, but when Dr. Marcy MacDonald stands on the shores of Dover, there is good money on her chances of completing what she sets out to do. Since 1994, the podiatrist from Andover, Connecticut has been crossing the English Channel between France and England. And she has gradually become
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When Scott Zornig of Laguna Beach, California created the stage swim concept of Fear No Pier, he had a specific purpose in mind. He wanted to challenge himself and others in the open water with something new. He had done his share of channel swims, marathon swims, and coastal mass participation ocean swims. He wanted
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In order to be completely fair at many professional competitions and marathon swimming events, there are random number selections so no athlete can complain that one boat crew or another escort boat is better than theirs. This objectivity enables an actual and perceived fairness to be shared by all. At the Faros Maratón in Croatia,
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The last time that Oussama Mellouli showed up for the RCP Tiburon Mile, he was just recovering from a devastating shoulder injury and had no expectations. He just wanted to get his feet wet, so to speak. He intended the competition to be fun and it was, if not a bit too cold for his
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 16 hours 43 minutes from setting off in Ireland and coming within 1 mile of the Scottish coast, Pat Gallant-Charette‘s dream of completing the North Channel came up so frustratingly short. However, the unforgivable coastal tides were just too much for the Lady from Maine who was traversing the
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Nadia Ben Bahtane has a life story that could be like many others. But she has an inner drive that is rare. Nadia dreams of becoming the first Moroccan amateur swimmer to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. In addition to her role as a mother, she has set her sights on crossing in 2014. Daniel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the shores of Dover are crowded with channel aspirants from around the world and the fields of Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen fill up quickly, it is not often that the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland are packing it in with swimmers. But today
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Darren Miller not only completed the Oceans Seven today in a remarkably smooth and straight crossing of the notorious North Channel between Ireland and Scotland, but he did it in an unprecedented manner. Miller crossed the North Channel in 11 hours 16 minutes, going 7-for-7 in his Oceans Seven
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