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One of the great things about the Midmar Mile in South Africa is when families swim together. Mothers and sons. Fathers and daughters. Brothers and sisters. Husbands and wives. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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A red card (or red flag) given in an open water swimming competition is a red-colored penalty card (or flag) that indicates the immediate disqualification (DQ) of an athlete due to unsportsmanlike conduct or a serious infraction of the rules during an open water race. If an open water swimmer has been called for one
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A safety briefing is pre-race or pre-swim instruction given by a race director, safety personnel, an escort boat captain or an observer to open water swimmers or triathletes. The safety briefing can be held before an open water swimming race or before a marathon swim or channel swim. It generally and specifically covers the water
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Sometimes they are small and invisible to the eye. Sometimes they are massively large and too numerous to miss. Sometimes the smaller they are, the most powerful their venom. Jellyfish can be the biggest obstacle to success for some swimmers on some open water swims. But we learned more than a few things about jellyfish
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are role models throughout society and especially in sports. From business leaders to athletic heroes, people from all walks of life can serve as inspirational icons who motivate others to lift themselves higher. We read about them in books and they are celebrated in film, but they also
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The Southern Pacific Masters Swimming group asked its members to donate their unneeded ribbons or medals in order to donate to charity. Would you also like to donate your old awards won at competitions and let them bring a bit of sunshine, happiness and pride to another individual? Trisha Commons would like to collect old
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It was quite an introduction to marathon swimming for Olympian Brooke Bennett. But the champion that she is, Bennett was one of the few finishers in the field of 18 who started and finished despite punishing waves and stiff winds at the 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim held this weekend. But it was former University
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Emerging 17-year-olds Diego Vera of Venezuela and Kleidymar Benitez won the popular 3.1 km Paso a Nado de los ríos Orinoco y Caroní in Guayana. The teenagers beat over 585 other competitors in a time of 33:09 and 37:29 respectively. Vera is an up-and-comer who captured the silver medal in the 5 km race at
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Multiple sclerosis has no known cure, but that has not stopped Susan from pursuing her aquatic dreams. Susan began training over a year ago for her first 10 km marathon swim. “Things went so well that I not only completed the event, but also came first among the women. I even managed to catch a
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Yash Daryanani, the national swimming team coach of Suriname, along with Elena Romantsov, Lisa Bocchino and Sid Cassidy are organizing the First International Swimming Camp in Boca Raton, Florida from August 12th-18th. Swimmers from 5 continents have already signed up for the week-long camp at the Duff Tyler Aquatic Complex at St. Andrews School. Coaches from
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