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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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Swimmers can be considered a unique breed of athletes. Both age-group swimmers and masters swimmers often wake up before the sun rises to train, sometimes in frigidly cold or rough water. For some, they go back to practice in the afternoon or evening and train again until the sun is down. Hours and hours are
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If it involves water – fresh or salt, chlorinated or cold – Jim McConica is at the top of his game. As the swimming community collectively nodded its head in agreement, Swimming World Magazine announced the 62-year-old McConica as one of its Top 12 World Masters Swimmers of the Year. A world-class swimmer for over
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“Once I get going in the water, I am ready to go,” explains Dave Barra who cracked a rib hiking down to the start of the first swim on Day One of last year’s inaugural S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge. “I can withstand a lot. Besides the rib only hurt when I breathed.” It is that kind
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You just never know. The mantra of the open water – expect the unexpected – nearly always rings true on the Earth Day marathon swimming extravaganza. For 16 years, Ron Collins has organized the Tampa Bay Marathon Swim and experienced swimmers from around the world have gathered on the western coast of Florida to challenge
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Kathleen Bates would be its representative. Bates can be at times inviting and warm, and at other times, scary and intense. With her Irish roots and American upbringing, Bates can go toe-to-toe with tough individuals and then easily switch personalities and lend a shoulder to those who need sympathy. Similarly, the open water can easily
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Johnny Depp might be its representative. A versatile actor who can morph himself into many different characters, he has played Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, a teenager in A Nightmare on Elm Street, a police cop in 21 Jump Street, a gentle spirit in Edward Scissorhands, an undercover FBI agent
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One of the world’s top 100 open water swims is offering excellent prize money this summer. A competition in one of the world’s mightiest rivers awaits an international field at the 2013 International Challenge of Swimming Across the Yangtze River. The 1.8 km race on July 16th in Wuhan, China is organized by the Wuhan
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“Everyone wants to enjoy the sun, the sand, the beach,” says Aheda Zanetti, the Australian swimwear designer who created the Burkini™ (Burqini™). “This is what God has given us. Let’s enjoy it.” The Burkini™ line and Ahiida® designs are in line with Islamic values, allowing Muslim women the choice to participate in swimming and other
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Inspired by Marcos Díaz’s Swim Across The Continents, Matías Ola is training for his own global series of swims called the Unir el Mundo project. Ola will shed the neoprene as a Argentine specialist in cold water swimming. His Unir el Mundo project includes the following swims: 1. Strait of Gibraltar from Marruecos in Morocco
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