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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Penny Dean who shattered the English Channel record by over an hour in 1978 and who set the still-standing record in the Catalina Channel will speak at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on September 22nd. She will participate […]
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Imagine being born without arms or legs. Imagine driving a car without arms or legs. Imagine making your own food without arms or legs. Imagine completing an open water swim without arms or legs. If so, you have envisioned a incredible man called Craig Dietz. Dietz will come to Southern California to give the keynote
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Just Keep Swimming, a Catalina Channel relay with Kate Martin, P.K. Gauchan, Robyn Beresh, Alicia Bartley (Team Captain), Sherry Winston, and Steve Klein, lived up to its name with a 13 hours 8 minute crossing. “We had really rough waters the first 6 hours of the swim,” explained Winston. “The Catalina Channel Swimming Federation Observers
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Taro Shirato (白戸 太朗) is an accomplished and charismatic professional triathlete in Japan who has helped create a tremendous buzz and public awareness of triathlons in Japan. But he also created the interesting term Sports navigator (スポーツナビゲーター). The King of Triathlon in Japan explains, “A sports navigator does not simply instruct and introduce sports. The
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At the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony that culminates the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, a renowned member of the open water swimming community will give the Channel Blessing: May your limbs be strong and your breath be even. May the rhythm of you stroke be smooth And your Spirit high.
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POW! WHAM!! BAM!!! Intensity and uncertainty. It is the RCP Tiburon Mile. Talk about an all-out dogfight in the open water: the RCP Tiburon Mile has it all with the top American and Australian marathon swimmers going at it this Sunday from Angel Island to Tiburon, just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San
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Big River Man Martin Strel will swim in Hudson today in an anniversary. “It has been 10 years since he swam down the entire length of the Mississippi River,” said his son Borut Strel. Tonight at 7:30 pm, his documentary Big River Man will have a special benefit screening with 100% of box office, plus
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Swimming Across The Channel On Warm Orange Juice Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the days of LORAN and when marathon swimmers around the world numbered in the dozens not in the thousands, a young group of beach city kids had dreams of swimming the Catalina Channel. “We trained all over the place in
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After the 2012 London Olympic Games, each country’s coaches and administrators take stock of the results and then plan again for the next Olympic quadrennial. While Tunisia (Ous Mellouli, gold), Germany (Thomas Lurz, silver), Canada (Richard Weinberger, bronze), Hungary (Eva Risztov, gold), USA (Haley Anderson, silver), and Italy (Martina Grimaldi, bronze) can build from podium
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Charlie Gravett, Vice President of the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club provided the following report on the Round Jersey Relay. The Round Jersey Relay was a charity event – 3 years in the planning – on behalf of Holidays for Heroes Jersey, a charity that brings wounded servicemen and their families to the beautiful, mystic
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