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Melissa Gorman from Australia and Kane Radford from New Zealand may have not realized their Olympic dreams in London, but they both have 10,000 reasons to believe their future remains bright as a result of today’s world-class performances in northern California. Gorman and Radford defended their titles at the 2012 RCP Tiburon Mile in San […]
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24-year-old Trent Grimsey has faced a number of suffocating defeats and career-jarring disappointments over the last few years. The Queensland native showed promise and potential, but he faced adversities and challenges that shattered his dreams and rocked his world. He trained like a madman and sacrificed as his coaches advised, but his vision of representing
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Although SwimSwam reported that funding was recently cut for the American open water swimming program and that American swimmers are angry and frustrated, we are certain that the future for the elite swimmers during the 2016 Olympic quadrennial is increasingly bright and financially rewarding. While the American swimmers will have to pay for their coaches
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Gold Medal Mel (aka Mel Stewart) is incomparable. His artsy, edgy, unconventional coverage of all things aquatic has turned SwimSwam into a visibly dynamic online juggernaut. As as athlete, Gold Medal Mel was the same. His performances, his stature and the ambiance he created turned heads and garnered attention. As an NCAA, world and Olympic
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Seven swimmers will be taking to the waters of Lake Memphremagog tonight to swim 25 miles across the length of the lake, starting at the stroke of midnight In Search of Memphré. In Search of Memphré is an international cross-border marathon swim on Lake Memphremagog from Newport in the state of Vermont, U.S.A. to Magog
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With more and more people jumping into the open water community as the world’s bodies of water continue to become more polluted, it is inevitable that more and more problems will occur as a result of more swimmers training and competing in the open water. Most swimmers simply do not address the potential problems, but
What To Do If You Are Swimming In Polluted Water? Read More »
It is commonly held that human DNA takes much time to evolve and change. The concept of epigenetics challenges this assumption. Epigenetics is the study of how the environment and behavior affect our genes during our own lifetime. According to this theory, if you swim and maintain a healthy life, your genes of your offspring
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Yutaka Shinozaki founded the Japan International Open Water Swimming Association (JIOWSA). The 14-race open water swimming series in Japan is now attracting an international following with athletes coming from Australia, Germany, Sweden, Korea, China, Taiwan and the United States to its latest addition – the International Masters Open Water Swim in Yumigahama Beach in Izu
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During the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on September 22nd, Swimming Australia will be recognized with a Certificate of Merit by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Chris Guesdon explains, “I was the Honorary Secretary of the Swimming Australia Open Water Committee from 1988 to 2000. This was the period when the Certificate
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