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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
If you have been stung by a jellyfish, there is a website for you: IGotStung. Whether you had a bad sting or just a little sting, dozens of stings or just one sting, you can tell your jellyfish sting story. As only a few examples, Linda Kaiser tells of swallowing a jellyfish here. Guila Muir […]
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Marwan Ghazawi is a name most contemporary marathon swimmers do not remember. However, the sturdily built Egyptian with a flawless stroke was a force to be reckoned with in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Since he first began swimming in Egypt under the guidance of his father and has never stopped. He won his first 1500m
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Mohamed Marouf and the Le Club de natation Calac hosted an international conference on open water swimming at its annual distance swimming competition in Montréal, Canada. Dr. Abou Elella Ade El Fattah of Egypt, Alain Lefebvre of Canada, Gilles Potvin of Canada, and Steven Munatones, as well as host and former professional marathon swimmer Mohamed
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It is for good reason that Seal Beach in California got its name. But recently the members of the Open Water Swim Club have been seeing more seals than usual up and down the Southern California coast. “I saw this little guy on the peninsula in Long Beach near Seal Beach,” recalled Lexie Kelly. “He
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During the first half of the 1996 Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda race in Argentina, Mohamed Marouf started to have shoulder problems early in the 57 km FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix marathon. He fought through the pain, but as he passed the 9 km, the pain was too much to bear.
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At restaurants, people eat more depending on how many people they are dining with. Researchers have documented that people eating alone tend to eat the least amount of food. In contrast, people eating with one other person eat 35% more than the lone diner. People in a party of four eat 75% compared with the
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Like their counterparts throughout the world of triathlon, scientists at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom looked into why more athletes die during the swim leg of triathlons compared to during the cycling or running legs. Professor Mike Tipton and his colleagues at the Extreme Environments Laboratory in the University of Portsmouth’s Department
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There are many endurance sports and adventure endeavors in the world. Men and women push themselves in all sorts of ways, conditions and distances from triathlons to ultra-marathon runs, mountaineering to cycling, cross-country skiing to Polar expeditions. But we believe open water swimming is particularly unique among the world’s physical activities, especially the niche areas
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In order to help elevate the sport of open water swimming, FINA’s most experienced FINA Delegates from the Technical Open Water Swimming Committee give lectures and share their expertise and experience with coaches, administrators, and athletes around the world. Zouheir El Moufti of Morocco (shown on left) and Sam Greetham of England will give another
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As we stand onshore observing open water swims from Pietermaritzburg in South Africa to Treasure Island in Fiji, we are constantly reminded of the innumerable amount of professionals passionate about open water swimming. These individuals are personable, hard-working stalwarts of society including nurses who cross channels, firefighters who go beyond what people think possible, teachers
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