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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
The Milk & Co Queensland Ocean Swim Series had close to 2,500 swimmers participate in its races during the 2013 season. Ellie Gleeson explains her reasons why ocean swimming is Australia’s new “it” sport: There is no fancy equipment. Complicated road bike? Expensive running shoes? High-tech designer gym wear? Terrifying cardio machines? Not a scrap […]
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“It is a testimony to his vision and efforts,” says David Barra of race director Kent Nicholas. “He has developed a real support system for everyone at S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge. It is a lot of work to get these stage swims organized. There are some long swims in remote places.” Nicholas has over 40 volunteers
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Once marathon swimming was added to the Olympic Summer Games, we have always envisioned that it would only be a matter of time before the NCAA added an open water swimming event to its men’s and women’s swimming & diving championships. Originally, we thought it might take a generation and depend on younger administrators and
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As the international group of dozens of swimmers, kayakers, volunteers, and organizers hike their way to the Saguaro Lake in the desert oasis of Arizona, they have to deal with not only the desert footing, but also jet lag. Most of the field has either flown in not only from all around the world including
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Vadim Ilyushchenko announced the May 12th Donbass Open Aquatics Fest in Donetsk, Ukraine. The D.O.A.F. is an all-comers aquatics festival organized by Prychyna Gennadii Anatoljevich, founder of the Donbass Swimming Masters, and Sidorenko Alexander Alexandrovich, a 1980 Moscow Olympic Games gold medalist, in 2003 as a small masters swimming competition. But the Festival has transformed
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Joseph Locke and Kimberly Chambers will swim together across the Strait of Gibraltar from Spain to Morocco today. The swimming couple will do a two-fer, a duo across the Strait for her third Oceans Seven channel. The New Zealander currently living in San Francisco and a member of the Night Train Swimmers has already completed
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Grace van der Byl won the first stage on Day One of the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge in Saguaro Lake in Arizona this morning. “It was beautiful, really beautiful. Water was clean with the water temperature between 20-22ºC (68-72ºF). The scenery around the lake was amazing with 10-foot cactus all around,” recalls the fast channel swimmer.
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Hydration is considered a vital part of athletic performance and physical health by coaches and trainers nowadays. But it was not always so. Back in the 1950’s, Australian swimmers were told to avoid hydration at all costs prior to a race. “I remember diving into the Olympic finals and tasting the water with my mouth,”
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Open water swimmers and triathletes cannot take their mobile devices with them in the water, but all that information that they can access on their smart phones might be cool to have – at times – in the water. Information such as water temperature, wind speed and direction, weather forecasts, SpotTracker information, Facebook updates from
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So where do open water swimmers and triathletes hang out? What beaches and lakes do they frequent? How often are they in communication with other open water swimmers and triathletes? How much communication intermingling exists between open water swimmers and triathletes? Who do swimmers and triathletes call just before or just after they swim or
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