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Ram Barkai, Ryan Stramrood and Kieron Palframan will be heading to Siberia in mid-winter for a swim in a frozen river. Without their fellow International Ice Swimming Association co-founders Toks Viviers and Andrew Chin, the 3 South Africans are heading to a town called Tyumen to join many other swimmers coming from around the world […]
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When Shelley Taylor-Smith swam 90 km from Sydney to Wollongong in Australia in an attempt to replicate Des Renford‘s pioneering swim of the same distance and course, she was shocked with the elements and blue bottles that she faced. She not only asphyxiated on boat fumes from her inflatable escort boats, but she also ingested the
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Open water swimming camps are increasingly being held all over the world and can refer to informal or formal clinics, seminars, training camps, conferences, webinars or get-togethers where open water coaches and swimmers discuss, train and learn from one another. The camps often include luminaries of the sport as well as related professionals from physicians to
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While some of the distance freestyle community does its year-end one hundred one hundreds, the Sandycove Island distance swimmers under the guidance of Ned Denison enjoy a slight twist of the aquatic pleasure and pain of 100 x 100s. Denison pushes the Cork community to join its morning century swim – or variances thereof. “Our
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NEKOWSA (Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association) was established in Derby, Vermont in 2010 with two goals in mind: 1. to organize and promote open water swimming in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, and 2. to raise funds for the rural area’s struggling, financially challenged sports, fitness, and recreation center, IROC
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Lise Ellner is an open water swimmer in Washington who swims several times a week in the East Passage between Vashon Island and Seattle. She is one of the few people who has swum the entire eastern side of Vashon Island in 3-4 mile increments. The winter water temperature hovers about 45ºF (7ºC) while the
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As an outstanding swimmer at The University of Tampa in Florida, Jimi Kiner was a 22-time All-American and national champion in the breaststroke. He culminated his pool swimming career at the 2000 United States Olympic Trials. But he continued to share his love for the water and passion for swimming as he shifted his competitive
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Doug Woodring is now offering the yin to the yang of the Clean Half with a new 15 km winter marathon swim in Hong Kong Island on February 23rd 2013. The Cold Half is modeled after Asia’s most popular marathon swim, the Clean Half, except the water temperature is more to the liking of marathon
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Whether you serve as an official on the race course or an observer on a channel escort boat, a nice gift can be the Rite in the Rain No. 146 Notebook by the J.L. Darling Corporation. Coaches caught in the rain during practice or reporters jotting down their thoughts on a media boat, the waterproof
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There are many words in the world’s estimated 6,800-6,900 languages that possess some words with meanings and implications that can vary like apps on an iPhone. Aloha is one example. Roll Tide is another example. In America among college football fans, these are two words that can be used as a greeting or farewell, a
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