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27-year-old Melissa Gorman is a professional marathon swimmer who knows she has to travel to earn a living. And she is on her way to New Zealand to earn the $20,000 cash prize as part of the New Zealand Ocean Swim Series’s round 4: the State Le Grande Swim in Akaroa this Saturday. The defending […]
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Jaws + Great White Sharks = Fear + Dread. Usually. Unless you are someone like New Yorker David Blaine or 3-time free diving world record holder Pierre Frolla of Monaco who can calmly swim among the most feared apex predators on Earth. For more photos of Frolla together with denizens of the deep, visit here.
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Neoprene. A big not in the open water swimming world. But neoprene is entirely acceptable in the triathlon and surfing worlds as well as the just-having-creative-fun department. French designer Guillaume Binard developed an Oceanwings neoprene suit that is worn by 3-time free diving world record holder Pierre Frolla of Monaco in the video below as
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Gary Hall, Jr. had some mighty big moccasins to fill. His father Gary Hall, Sr. was one of the all-time great American swimmers. But Junior did it his own way and did it extraordinarily well and colorfully. Following the footsteps of his father who was inducted in 1981, Gary Hall, Jr. joins the International Swimming
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The International Swimming Hall of Fame announced its Class of 2013 and it included one of the all-time greats of open water swimming. The ten individuals selected for induction include Cliff Lumsdon of Canada, along with Gary Hall, Jr., Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED), Yana Klochkova (UKR), Dagmar Hase (GER), Hu Jia (CHN), Nathalie Schneyder
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Tunisia’s open water swimming ambassador Nejib Belhedi was televised today on TV1 and Hannibal TV swimming in 3ºC (37ºF) water for an hour at the Sidi Saad Dam in Jedliane (Kasserine), Tunisia. The English Channel swimmer who also swam the coastline of his native Tunisia in times of political and social turmoil has done a
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LOL, CU, UR, and all kinds of abbreviations, acronyms, emoticons, smileys, onomatopoeic and stylized spellings are used all over the Internet, in forums, emails and via text. So what kind of English abbreviations and acronyms can be used or texted by triathletes or open water swimmers? Here are a few: RFC: or really freaking cold,
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Theodore Yach, whose outstanding autobiography In My Element continues to sell extremely well, completed his 69th Robben Island crossing on Sunday. “It was only one minute off my lifetime best for the Robben Island to Three Anchor Bay route in a time of 2 hours 45 minutes for the 11 km route. Derrick Frazer of
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Niek Kloots of Open Water Swimming in Europe reported that the 2013 European Open Water Swimming Championships, scheduled to be held in Hoorn and sanctioned by LEN ((Ligue Européenne de Natation), has been cancelled. The story is here. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Leroy L. Long III and Manoj Srinivasan wrote a paper entitled Walking, running, and resting under time, distance, and average speed constraints: optimality of walk–run–rest mixtures. We smiled when we read their study that stated, “…we study human choice between walking and running in a more ecological (non-treadmill) setting. We asked subjects to travel a
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