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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
In large mass participation races, high profile races or professional marathon races, the physicality between competitive athletes can get out of hand. Ziplining, elbowing, veering off, cutting off, swimming over the legs or back of another swimmer, or impeding in some way can occur at the start, around turn buoys, along a straightaway, near a […]
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Five Or More Get On Rottnest Channel Swim Honour Board Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. On February 23rd, a number of swimmers will have the opportunity to join the Rottnest Channel Swim Honour Board or add to their Rotto Swim accomplishments. The Rottnest Channel Swim Honour Board includes swimmers who have completed at
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Professor Ricardo Ratto was a marathon swimming official at the 2012 London Olympic Games. There was enough pressure on Ratto’s shoulders in the Serpentine, but now the pressure is ratcheted up for the Brazilian native at the 2016 Rio Olympics. It is one thing to be one official as part of a team of officials.
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With an absolutely dominating victory over Notre Dame in last night’s national championship football game, Alabama alumni and fans are ecstatic with joy. With a game plan second to none, the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama under coach Nick Saban showed creativity and ingenuity. And the Tide’s intellectual prowess was more than matched
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Stephen Redmond of Ireland and Benjamin Schulte of Guam went head-to-head during two months of the WOWSA Awards voting. The men were both nominees for the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. They are both celebrated in their respective countries. Men humbled by the circumstances where they found themselves – Redmond as the
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Pool vs. Open Water Swimming, A Different Intensity Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. From learning how to swim as a 4-year-old in Santa Monica Beach to growing up in Southern California playing water polo, doing open water swims, run-swim biathlons and pool races, I was never far away from water. In 1982, I did
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While the global sporting community is loves fútbol, the American society loves its own version of football. And tonight is a classic American college game against two traditional powerhouses: Alabama vs. Notre Dame. It is the power and traditions of Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish of Notre Dame against the power and speed of the Alabama
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Dr. Sylvia Earle is the former Chief Scientist of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, as well as the founder of Sylvia Earle Alliance, Mission Blue, and Deep Ocean Exploration and Research. Dr. Earle has been called Her Deepness by the New York Times and named a Living Legend by the
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The swim under the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge by Jamie Patrick and Jaimal Yogis will be viewable live here at 4:15 pm today San Francisco time. The adventurous duo will swim from one end of the Bay to the Book Passage store in order to launch his new book – The Fear Project. Follow
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jaimal Yogis, author of The Fear Project and Saltwater Buddha, describes the primal emotion of fear in myriad ways including descriptions of open water swims and insights by Jamie Patrick. The Fear Project is released tomorrow with a uniquely open water twist in the dark. Yogis and Patrick will
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