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There are few open water swimming traditions like the Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia in northern Spain. The quaint town of Navia offers up its gracious Spanish hospitality to the hundreds of swimmers who descend upon the area for the multi-race event held over 3 days. The Descenso a Nado de la […]
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Behind the dominant Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang, two Olympic 10km marathon swim finalists swam quick 1500m times in the preliminary heats in London. Ous Mellouli qualified second in the 1500m in 14:46.23 while Daniel Fogg also qualified for the 1500m final in 14:56.12. The 2008 Tunisian gold medalist will meet his British rivals two
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The Olympic marathon swimmers have spent years waking up early, going to the pool to swim lap after lap, and training up to 6 hours a day. The sacrifices are clearly evident. But there are men and women who have spent years and decades also waking up early, going to the pool and sacrificing much
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The Olympic marathon swimmers have spent years waking up early, going to the pool to swim lap after lap, and training up to 6 hours a day. The sacrifice is clearly evident. But there are also men and women who have spent years and, in many cases, decades waking up early, going to the pool
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Open Water Source provides information in Spanish on the Olympic marathon swimming 10km here. Spanish-speaking Olympic marathon swimmers include Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina, Erika Villaécija García of Spain, Yanel Adriana Pinto Pérez of Venezuela, Lizeth Rueda Santos of Mexico, Francisco “Kiko” Hervás of Spain, Iván Enderica Ochoa of Ecuador and Erwin Maldonado of Venezuela. Copyright
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The New York Times published an intriguing article and record comparison between all of the Olympic champions over history, including Nathan Adrian who won the 100-meter freestyle at the 2012 London Olympic Games (see on left). The article is posted here. This comparison reminds us of the digital comparison of world record holders since 1905.
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Gábor Molnár Completes Swim In The Körös River Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cork, Ireland-based marathon swimmer Gábor Molnár swam 37.2 km from Őcsöd to Csongràd in the Körös River (shown on right) in Hungary. The unprecedented swim took the Hungarian native with creative tattoos and a bright smile 9 hours 30 minutes to
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From the officials and athletes in the Olympic Village and the officials of the Olympic Family, the local (LOCOG) volunteers have caught the Olympic spirit and are as enthusiastic and helpful as can be. But from pool side, there have been some grumblings that were addressed. We think grumblings will be more like rumblings in
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Russia will be represented by two swimmers in the Olympic marathon swimming 10km: Sergey Bolshakov and Vladimir Dyatchin. Germany will also be represented by two men: Thomas Lurz and Andreas Waschburger. And so will Ecuador. Ivan Enderica Ochoa will be one of the 25 male finalists and former two-time Ecuadorean Olympian Jorge Delgado will be
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