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At the FINA Masters Extraordinary Congress in Barcelona, FINA essentially reiterated its decisions regarding water temperature ranges. For FINA-sanctioned races, the water temperature must be between 18° and 31°C. While we believe that the 31°C temperature maximum is much too high for elite competitors in 5 km, 10 km, and 25 km competitions, we most […]
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We had the pleasure of talking about professional marathon swimming in the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s with Marwan Saleh is a professional marathon swimmer from Syria. He recalled famous races from Canada to Egypt. A record-setting 9 hour 27 minute English Channel swimmer in 1976, Saleh also completed eight 32 km Traversée internationale du lac
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The 25 athletes in the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Québec can be seen live tomorrow on the Internet here. The webcast across lac St-Jean will begin at 7:30 am local time (New York time) and the actual 32 km crossing will begin at 8 am with the athletes listed below.
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Canadian marathon swimmer Joanie Guillemette-Simard competed on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix and FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup races soon after her car was hit by a moose in Canada. Her accident was horrific as her car piled headlong into the moose crossing a road. Broken bones, terrible lacerations and huge black
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An open water swimming wonk notices the tiny details planned and prepared by the world’s most astute race directors and their hard-working professional and volunteer staff. The extraordinary attention to detail as performed annually by the staff of the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean never ceases to amaze and educate open water swimming wonks. The
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One thing about the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Québec, Canada, it has some most excellent pontoons. And plenty of them. The pontoons – both at the start and the finish – are able to hold dozens of officials and volunteers during the finish. And the pontoons incorporate an entire finish systems with
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Sea planes were taking off in the middle of the race. “How often do you see that?” asks USA Swimming Coach Dave Thomas. “It was a gorgeous day and the planes just taxied out beyond the breakwater and took off during the race. It was a classic sight. I have always heard about this race
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Thomas Lurz has a tremendous schedule at the 2013 FINA World Championships – by far the longest and most difficult of any athlete at the championships. And he is making the most of his opportunities. With a silver in the 5 km and a bronze in the 10 km two days later, the German phenom
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The pace of the top-level swimmers is getting faster and faster at each major championship – and the number of swimmers vying for medals continues to increase. To understand how close the top competitors are at the 2013 FINA World Championships, we can look at Chad Ho of South Africa (shown with teammate Troy Prinsloo).
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In tomorrow’s 5 km team pursuit event, Hungary came up with an interesting team strategy. While every other team has selected two men and one woman to represent their country, Team Hungary went with two fast women and one man. Since the team event is based on the time of the last swimmer, it really
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