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With the excitement of the Olympic marathon swim in the history books, amateurs of all ages, abilities and backgrounds have their own opportunities to participate in marathon swims around the world. There are at least 106 formally organized marathon swims around the world with several dozens more in planning stages. By 2014, there is forecasted […]
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The 2013 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup will consist of 8 races: 1. January 27th – Santos, Brazil 2. February 2nd – Patagones-Viedma, Argentina 3. March 1st – Eliat, Israel 4. April 13th – Cancun, Mexico 5. July 25th – Lac St-Jean, Canada 6. August 11th – Lac Mégantic, Canada 7. October 6th –
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“Is Michael Phelps the greatest Olympian ever?“ This question was raised several times by television personalities and newspaper reporters during the 2012 London Olympic Games. And the answer always seemed to be somewhere between, “Well..perhaps but he was a swimmer so he could compete in many different events…” to “…But how can you compare Phelps
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After watching Oussama Mellouli win the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim in London, we marveled at his strength, speed and stamina. But his strategy was also flawless for 3 reasons: 1. Positioning Mellouli placed himself nearly perfectly throughout the race. While swimmers complained about the physicality of the race, and
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Michael Stresemann (51) of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, John Crompton (59) of Charleston, South Carolina, John Buechler (44) of Annandale, Virginia, and Joe Rainero (46) of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina set out to do something unprecedented. This past weekend, they completed a 17.43-mile relay across South Holston Lake from Caleb’s Cove in Virginia to Riddle
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Kate Willoughby is a New Zealand-born 32-year-old British expatriate from Surrey, England working in Dubai. She is attempting a 25km charity swim on 21 November 2012, called Swimming Around The World, to raise awareness of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy around The World Islands breakwater, a perimeter wall that protects the man-made development of 300 islands off
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Alan Neves produced a wonderful piece on Gordon Gridley‘s 11 hour 30 minute crossing of the English Channel. Give that man his chicken nuggets…he deserves them. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps do it. Carly Geehr, a former beach lifeguard and national-level swimmer at Stanford, explains, “Nearly 100% of elite competitive swimmers pee in the pool. Regularly. Some deny it, some proudly embrace it, but everyone does.” Urinating in competition pools has become big news in the media in light of Lochte
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In some ocean races in South Africa, its rules that governed wetsuit usage dictated that wetsuit swimmers receive a 1-minute time penalty for every 1 km swam. Other open water swims where wetsuit swimmers and non-wetsuit swimmers compete in the same division have different time differentials (e.g., 60-90 seconds per 1.6 km swam). But there
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Larry Herlth, known as Lighthouse Larry, is an American artist and open water swimmer from Islamorada, Florida who completed an 8-mile swim from Islamorada around the Alligator Lighthouse and back in 5 hours, 11 minutes. He attempted the swim as a crusade to raise awareness about Alligator Lighthouse and the five other historic but deteriorating
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