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In a year that saw her just barely miss out on an Olympic gold medal in the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim, Haley Anderson finished behind Olympic 800m gold medalist Katie Ledecky last night in USA Swimming’s annual Golden Goggles Awards. Both of the young personable stars were nominees for the Breakout Performance of the Year, […]
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The history of coastal cities can be fascinating for history buffs. Queen Dido was the founder and first Queen of Carthage in modern-day Tunisia on the coast of North Africa according to ancient Greek and Roman sources. She was able to carve out this property through a clever proposal: she asked a piece of land
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NASA satellite operators, professional race car drivers and open water swimmers have one common thread tying them together. They all face optimal control issues. That is, satellite engineers, race car drivers and swimmers all want to identify and follow the optimal course they can take to travel in the least amount of time or by
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The swimming community, sports fans and the media consider open water swimming to be a new sport. Introduced to the global sporting community at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, open water swimming is relatively recent addition to the vernacular of the world of athletics. But we consider open water swimming to be new like real-time
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In July 1948, lifeguards Frederick Rohlfing, Don Watson, James Garvey, James Quinlivan and Robert Reinhold set off from St. Louis to participate in the 22-mile Mississippi River marathon Alton, Illinois. Reinhold and Quinlivan had previously swum the distance along the same course in 1945, setting the record in 5 hours 35 minutes. [Read more…] Copyright
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According to the archives in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, an annual 2-mile swim began in 1898 that moved in various locations around Lake Michigan. After the establishment of the Illinois Athletic Club in 1904, the club sponsored it for over 50 years. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The past, present and future of open water swimming was evident at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference. When attendees could mingle with luminaries in the sport like Ned Denison of Ireland, Nejib Belhedi of Tunisia, Dr. Harry Huffaker of Hawaii, and Dr. Penny Dean, there was a whole lotta discussions about everything from
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Occasionally, we ask fundamental questions about the sport of open water swimming. Why is it that feeding means drinking? Why is it when a swimmer is racing, they are also floating and drafting? [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Open water swimmers occasionally hit turbulence and must face surface chop. While rough water and whitecaps are the bane of most open water swimmers and their escort pilots and crew, some experienced veterans prefer rough water conditions in a race so they can best utilize their ocean-faring skills. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open
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At the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, all kinds of one-on-one and side conversations were held. Questions were asked, opinions were given, and stories were shared. Imagine the conversation between Tina Neill (left) who swam 52 miles from San Clemente Island to the California mainland in
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