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Half Century Club member Roger Finch of South Africa arrived in New York one week before the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim together wit his English Channel support team. “I met up with Jeff Ackerman, my paddler, and Tony Pascucci, my boat captain for the swim the morning of the swim at Battery Park. I started […]
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Verb – Voluntold is to serve as a volunteer at the strong request of another individual. Voluntold is to be told to do something without your express or previous consent or knowledge. It is also the act of volunteering someone for something without giving them the choice to decline. The race director voluntold the college
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After rumors that Stephen Redmond was calling it a day and heading home, he has set off from the Tappi Misaki port and is instead heading for the start point on Honshu. Despite weather that is less than promising, Captain Mizushima and the Japanese Coast Guard gave him the approval to make one more attempt.
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Darren Miller, the latest conqueror of the Tsugaru Channel and one of the Top Guns of the Oceans Seven, was feted last night in Japan at a party sponsored by Mercedes Benz. As a special guest, the dashing American along with his brother Matthew were the talk of Tokyo. So believe him when he says,
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“I think the food is wonderful,” said Stephen Redmond in a traditional Japanese inn facing the Tsugaru Channel in northern Honshu. “But I don’t want to eat anything that I am not used to before I swim.” “Can you pass the bread and cheese?” he asked to his friend and trainer Noel Browne. In addition
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When we observed Darren Miller attack the Tsugaru Channel, it definitely was a battle between man and nature. Mother Nature was Goliath, the heavyweight with the upper hand, while Miller was a flyweight facing an insurmountable bout. The swells running fast from the Sea of Japan were generated from strong cross winds running perpendicular and
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At 91 years old, Roy Webster was still cheering on friends and family as they participated in the annual Columbia River Cross-Channel Swim. Webster, a local orchard owner, began the event 70 years ago when he challenged himself to swim across the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon at Hood River. Today close to 500
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The 8th annual Sheko Challenge and world’s only Trisolothon will be the first sports event in Hong Kong where zero plastic water bottles will be used for the athletes. Filtered water will be supplied by Life Solutions in BAMBOA’s re-useable bamboo cups (shown below), meaning swimmers will get cold, fresh water without leaving waste plastic
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) website is now available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Japanese. The IMSHOF site will also soon be made available in French and German. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was established in 1961 to recognize the marathon swimmers throughout the world and is governed by
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Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida, Japan’s two representatives at the Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim at the London Games, will receive a nice send-off at this weekend’s Japan Open in Tateyama. The 4 km relay and 10 km solo swim is the most competitive open water swim among the hundreds of events in Japan. One
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