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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
The 2nd Annual Swim Across America Tampa Bay will be held on Clearwater Beach, Florida on May 18th. “We are looking for swimmers to enter the ½-mile, 1-mile, or 2.4-mile event,” requests Rebecca Collins, herself a cancer survivor. Her husband, Ron, is a co-race director. “We’re also looking for volunteers to help out with event […]
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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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Gilles Potvin, Still Passionate 71 Years Into It Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gilles Potvin, now 71, has all kinds of recollections from years past. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame honouree competed in and completed seven 24 Heures La Tuque swims that required him to compete from around and around the perimeter
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A birthday swim is a special swim or workout set performed on one’s birthday by swimmers, either in a pool or an open body of water. The birthday swims are typically difficult, long and/or unique, and often based on the same number as the age of the swimmer celebrating his or her birthday. For example
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The Oak Streakers, an open water swimming pod based out of Laguna Beach, California, have a tradition of doing special or tough ocean workouts when one of their members has a birthday. Santa Barbara Channel Swimming Association board member Lynn Kubasek issued a Wilson Workout for this weekend where the ocean swimmers have to swim
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Come July this year in Barcelona, Erika Villaecija of Spain will face a little bit of the pressure that Keri-Anne Payne faced at the London Olympic Games last year. The 3-time Spanish Olympic swimmer who finished eighth at the 2012 Olympics will be competing in her hometown of Barcelona at this year’s FINA World Swimming
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Way back in the distant past of online social media, we were tweeting from the NBC studios during the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. As we managed the online commentary from the NBC media center, our information flow was powered by a myriad data and a near real-time Internet feed.
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