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If there was any place ideal to relax, the Cayman Islands is it. One week for the USA World Championship (pool) Trials for the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, and 5 weeks before she represents the United States in the 5 km open water race, Haley Anderson is fine-tuning her navigational skills and distance work […]
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Zsofia Balas had 4 goals in mind at today’s Flowers International 10 km race on Grand Cayman Island: (1) get used to her new swimsuit for the upcoming FINA World Championships in Barcelona, (2) win the inaugural 10 km race along Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman, (3) understand how hydration affects her core body
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Scientists have researched why long-married couples start to look like one another over time. Husbands and wives who did not have any specific resemblance to each other when they were first married begin to come to resemble each other over decades of marriage. The increase in facial similarity results from decades of shared emotions, according
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Laurie Dunlap and Bobby Patten and over 60 of their masters swimming teammates, friends, and family members headed off to the Cayman Islands this weekend for the 1-mile Flowers Sea Swim and the 5 km and 10 km international marathon swims. “We had so many people sign-up for this event back in April, I had
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One of the pleasures of open water swims in the Cayman Islands is to wake up, walk a few steps from the hotel across its sugary white sands, and swim in the warm tropical waters of the Caribbean Sea. The colors of the sea are constantly changing. Whether the morning sun is rising or is
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British swimmer Elizabeth Berns is a 36-year-old living in the Cayman Islands. Last year in July, she completed an unprecedented double crossing of the Cayman Brac Channel in 10 hours 34 minutes. “We hit some strong oncoming currents on the way back,” recalled Berns who swam with Alex Harling, Kerri Kanuga and Andrea Roach. “We
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Dara Flowers-Burke works hand-in-hand with her father and founder of the Flowers Sea Swim. Her role is a part of her DNA; her operational and public relations responsibilities are complimentary to the vision of her father. But she found herself 8 and a half months pregnant during this year’s Flowers Sea Swim. With her daughter
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With 882 people lined up at the start of the 21st annual Flowers Sea Swim, it was undoubtedly going to a fast 1-mile swim down Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman Island. The elite athletes had to get a jump on the hundreds of swimmers around them. Plus, the top women were bunched up with
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This year was the most competitive race of the 21 years of the Flowers Sea Swim history. With Joey Pedraza trying to avenge his second-place finish in 2012, the Florida resident played his cards right in 2013. But he ran into a young contingent from Team Santa Monica, led by Jordan Wilimovsky, Brendan Casey, and
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The full line-up of the powerful Italian National Open Water Swimming Team will be complete after Sunday’s 25 km Championship event in Castellabate. Viewed from the outside, the Federazione Italiana Nuoto (Italian Swimming Federation) is extremely supportive of not only its national team members, but it also endeavors to constantly develop the next generation swimmers.
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