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Irene van der Laan is an interior designer by trade, decorating and advising clients on how to make their homes and offices brighter and more organized in a way that reflects their personality. But Irene’s heart is geared towards the outdoors – specifically the open water. A partial list of her open water swims from […]
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Alexander Studzinski is a top professional marathon swimmer with a particularly prolific career. The 29-year-old from Germany has been in the top ranks of the professional circuit for year. In addition to shorter invitational races that have taken him from England to Brazil, he focuses his summer on the longer races. Among his 50 of
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Swimmers from Argentina have won the Traversée international du lac St-Jean 13 times since 1955. Swimmers from the United States of America have also won 13 times since 1955. The winners of the Traversée international du lac St-Jean, who have competed in difference distances, over the years include the following: 1955 – Jacques Amyot (Canada)
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Becca Mann, the youngest Olympic Trials finalist (in various events) and a top American open water swimmer, will head over to Honolulu this year. Mann will try to stem the Aussie tide and win the perenially tough Waikiki Roughwater Swim. But FINIS’ Luane Rowe of Australia is no going out without s fight. The four-time
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ishin denshin (以心伝心), the Japanese concept of mutual understanding and communication, is playing itself out during Diana Nyad’s 103-mile attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Her business partner at Brava Body and her chief handler Bonnie Stoll have forged an ideal relationship between themselves. Stoll, formerly a world-class
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Doug Stanley and his team at Ridgeline Entertainment are the people who are enabling Ben Lecomte to realize his dream to not only swim across the Pacific Ocean, but also to bring the day-to-day drama to the world in a unique technological package. Out in the middle of the Earth’s largest body of water, Stanley
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Diana Nyad continues to swim under the majesty of the sky, even if she is facing difficulties at sea level. Fortunately, the number of box jellyfish dramatically fell on the second night of her swim between Cuba and Florida. While the skies above her showered her with streaks of lightening bolts and howls of thunder,
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In the 1960s, Captain Ransom Arthur, M.D. encouraged adults to swim for exercise. His idea caught on quickly, especially among 47 athletes who participated in the first U.S. Masters Swimming Championships in 1970. By 1973, Captain Arthur’s vision had drawn the attention of the Amateur Athletic Union (A.A.U.) that governed amateur sports in the United
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La Asociación Amigos de la Ría de Navia offers a fun game (called the La Apuesta in Spanish) around its Copa Asturias and its Descenso de la Ría de Navia that are held in northern Spain in the Navia River. Before the two races, fans, spectators, family and friends can predict the male and female
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Angel Yanagihara, a biochemist and researcher at the University of Hawaii’s Department of Tropical Medicine has prepared for the worse. If Diana Nyad gets stung by box jellyfish or Portuguese man o war during her 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, Dr. Yanagihara will be able to identify
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