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Paula Yankauskas competed in the WOWSA World 10-mile Swimming Championships. The 58-year-old dynamo tells her impressions of the race. Daily News of Open Water Swimming: How did you feel before the 10-mile swim? Paula Yankauskas: I was ready to swim, relaxed and happy. I warmed up with a brief jog to a faraway parked car […]
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Here’s one useful present to your favorite open water swimmer or coach: the Kindle Paperwhite. It is a waterproofed ereader that enables swimmers, coaches, kayakers, paddlers, pilots, observers, volunteers, officials and escort crew to be able to read a book onshore, documents in a boat, or maps in a kayak while never worrying about rain,
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Escort pilot Brian Maherg, Irish Long Distance Swimming Association president Billy Wallace and Sheena Patterson celebrated the fulfillment of a promise made many years ago by Anna Carin Nordin (in pink on left). The Swedish swimmer committed to crossing the North Channel and saw her Oceans Seven dream come through with help from her Irish
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If anyone is able to quietly swim 7 major channels under the radar, it is certainly the Swedish marathon swimmer Anna Carin Nordin. Out of the media spotlight and about as self-promoting as a sherpa on Everest, this mild-mannered mother of one put her mind to completing a task that took her around the world.
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The Mega, also known as Megacolossus or Mega Colossus, is a Huntington State Beach Lifeguards Association-sponsored endurance contest in the sand and offshore waters of the Pacific Beach. Yesterday, the underground run-swim spectacular took place under gloomy skies. The Mega consists of 5 beach runs totaling 8.5 miles (13.7 km) and 4 ocean swims totaling
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You gotta like it when local road traffic is being informed about a race out in the open water. At the annual Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog in Vermont, race director Phil White and the volunteers of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association makes sure the local community is properly warned (e.g., educated and
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Training in the front yard of Eney Jones in Colorado seems like fun (see below). But what does she use to hold the triathletes and open water swimmers in position as they swim upstream in Boulder Creek in view of majestic Rocky Mountains? The same things that she used in a pool: a BOWSWIM® Resistance
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FINIS already won one prestigious Red Dot design award for its innovative Agility Paddles. And the California-based company continues to rack up the awards and accolades. FINIS impressed a 37-member jury of design experts with its newest product, the Neptune MP3 Player, to receive the “red dot award: product design 2013”. The international jury only
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Dokdo lies between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. The islands are considered an unalterable, irrefutable part of Korea according to the Korean government and people. And the same position is held by the Japanese government. Korean singer Kim Jang-Hoon and teammates from the Korea National Sport University proved their point the hard way.
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The Associated Press and various news outlets issued information on the rare black jellyfish that recently surfaced on the Southern California near-coastal waters and beaches from Laguna Beach to San Diego. The Associated Press report on the large, venomous jellyfish is here. The black jellyfish is one of many creatures in the world’s oceans that
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