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17-year-old Alex McCallum of the Stingray Swim Club in the Cayman Islands swam the race of his life and upset 2-time Olympic champion Ous Mellouli at the Pirates Week 5K Swim on Grand Cayman Island. World team pursuit champion Ashley Twichell finished third with Lexie Kelly in fourth among the 43-person field. The conditions were […]
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Two-time Olympic medalist Thomas Lurz (silver in 2012 and bronze in 2008 Olympic 10km Marathon Swim) is renowned for his workout habits. In the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics, he trained as intensely as anyone else in the open water swimming world. One of his intense distance training camps was a pool of pain,
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Doug Woodring and John Quigley of Spectral Q organized over 800 children, teachers and volunteers from 14 schools to form a massive kid-designed Chinese White Dolphin, originally drawn by 9-year-old Leung Man Hin, on the Repulse Bay Beach in Hong Kong. They collectively formed a giant human design in the sand. The aerial art event
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On land, it can be considered rude to outright ask a man his salary. Similarly, it is considered a breach in etiquette to ask a woman her age. But we found the open water creates the ambiance of the Fountain of Youth. Ask a woman her age after a channel swim or almost any open
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Kimberley Chambers became the 27th person in history and the first person from New Zealand to complete a solo Molokai Channel crossing today. It was anything but easy. She left Kalua Koi on Molokai, normally a much further north point than the usual Laau Point at 8:23 pm yesterday. After enjoying a good first four
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From the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere, from solo swimming to mass starts, with and without wetsuits, English Channel record holder Trent Grimsey is on the hottest streak in the open water swimming world. After dominating the ultra-marathon swimming circuit, the 2012 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion also destroyed the field at
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Tom Kean of Henley Swim, commented on the issue related to the maximum water temperature of FINA-sanctioned open water swims (that can allow up to 30 minutes of competitive swimming above 31°C). His father was a technical delegate for Formula One, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) in motor sports. He used to visit teams
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Who is going to be King of the Sea? Who is going to reign over the 2016 Rio Olympics marathon course? Who is going to win the 2012 race on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro front of a national television audience? Can anyone knock off Ous Mellouli? Does Trent Grimsey have what it takes?
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Over 14% of the successful Catalina Channel swimmers (35 out of a total of 251 swimmers) are members of the Half Century Club. This esteemed group of open water swimmers successfully crossed the 20.2-mile Catalina Channel when they were at least 50 years young. And many of them have not only completed the Catalina Channel,
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Art captures people’s attention, but aerial art helps gets them involved in a uniquely creative manner. “Everyone’s life is a work of art. We are all artists,” believes John Quigley, founder of Spectral Q. [Read more…] Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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