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If there is one way to prepare for a multi-day, extremely cold water relay near the Arctic Circle, it is to swim a really long distance in cold water at high altitude. Which is exactly what Craig Lenning did. The Colorado marathon swimming stalwart swam 42 miles (67.5 km) in a two-way crossing of Lake […]
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We believe the Bering Strait Swim is one of the most dangerous and inherently risky open water swimming adventures of all time. Like Arctic adventurers of yore, the men and women of the Bering Strait Swim are entering into inherently risky waters doing something uniquely unprecedented. Ryan Stramrood of South Africa reports on his Facebook
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Sharks are high on the list of fears of most open water swimmers. But the number of sharks in the world’s oceans is dwindling. The media often refers to figures of 70-100 million sharks that are killed each year. We wondered where these figures came from. Sarah Bedolfe, Coordinator of Marine Research for One World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA announced its new members of its Technical Open Water Swimming Committee (TOWSC) for the 2013-2017 period. Long-time members Dennis Miller, Ronnie Wong (Hong Kong), Jorge Delgado (Ecuador), Sid Cassidy (USA), Tomas Haces (Cuba) maintain continuity and remain the backbone of the influential committee. But there is plenty of
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The exciting and controversial finish of the 34 km Traversée Internationale du lac Memphrémagog between Olga Kozydub (Russia), Silvie Rybarova (Czech Republic), Martina Grimaldi (Italy), and Celia Barrot (France), with Tomi Stefanovski (Macedonia) and Alexander Studzinski (Germany) in the mix, is shown below. After the athletes rounded the final few turn buoys in the 34
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Aimeson King of Canada won Sunday’s Traversée Internationale du lac Memphrémagog 10 km race over Davy Billiau of Belgium, 2:08:11 to 2:09:19. Two 17-year-olds from Canada, Samuel Matte (2:12:12) and Gabriel Pouliot (2:20:49) finished in third and fourth along the northern shores of lac Memphrémagog. The top 10 were rounded out by Frédéric Girard (2:24:25),
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When Phil White opened up the The Clubhous for open water swimmers on the shores of Lake Memphremagog little did we know there were so many great lakes to enjoy and swim in. In addition to Mighty Memphremagog, Lake Seymour and Lake Willoughby are nearby rising majestically out of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Lake
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After the professional marathon races in Quebec, Canada, the organizers arrange for massages to the athletes. A few are hypothermic, but most are sore and extremely tired. But in the hands of the experienced masseurs, frowns usually turn to smiles, aches usually result in a post-swim soreness. The swimmers are wrapped in a heap of
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John Kucera and a bunch of his paddle boarding colleagues are participating in the Ocean of Hope/Sarcoma Alliance. They are racing in the Catalina Classic 32-mile Paddleboard Race on August 25th. “Every little bit helps the cause. I do not know what the conditions will be for this year’s crossing, nor do I know how
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