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The Olympic marathon swim and the Olympic marathon swim both showcase some of the best and fastest endurance athletes in the world. While the marathon run has a long history and (the men’s race) is featured on last day of the Olympic Games, the marathon swim was introduced at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a […]
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The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) website is now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. The IMSHOF site will also soon be made available in Italian, French, German and Japanese. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame was established in 1961 to recognize the marathon swimmers throughout the world and governed by an
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The Pacific Vortex Challenge (PVC) is an ultra-marathon ocean relay race from Hawaii to Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, California, created by Richard Pain, an Australian filmmaker, environmentalist and open water swimmer. The Pacific Vortex Challenge is a match race between two 8-member relay teams swimming 2,500 miles across the largest body of water
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The Open Water Vacation Giveaway is provided courtesy of Open Water Source. Winners will be randomly selected from among those who register in advance for the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on the RMS Queen Mary between September 21st – 23rd. Four vacation giveaways will be given away among those
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Katie Rowe Turning Swimming In A Career In Hollywood Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Katie Rowe is a former world-class swimmer from Long Beach, California. Whether she found herself at the beach, in the surf, on a pool deck or racing between the backstroke flags, Rowe cuts a eye-catching figure. The all-around waterwoman turned
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The Big Richard is the world’s longest and most competitive beach run + ocean swim biathlon. The brutal coastal biathlon, fashioned after the Mega is organized by Long Beach waterman Matt Mitchell and held in Southern California from the surf-pounding Wedge in Newport Beach (shown on left) to the majestic Queen Mary in Long Beach
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With the intense rays of the sun piercing the skies above and being amplified by the seas around Key West, the participants in the annual FKCC Swim Around Key West used a variety of skin care creams and gels. Photo of Blue Men Joshua Ashley from Jacksonville, Florida and Rob Kent from Ontario, Canada at
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About a month shy of her 50th birthday, Australian marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with her team. The intrepid swimmer and her escort team are about to set off on their greatest journey to date: Cuba to Florida. She calmly answered a variety of questions about her 103-mile (166 km) swim,
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Bob Placak keeps on upping the ante on his vision for the ultimate swimming weekend. The 13th annual RCP Tiburon Mile is expanding once again to the RCP Tiburon Sprint Classic with a slew of custom events featuring famous Olympians. The 1.2-mile RCP Tiburon Mile will feature the same chilly, tricky course with its hellish
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The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Game (LOCOG) produced a guide and a course map for the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km on August 9th (women) and 10th (men) in the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park. LOCOG also provided the following tips for those lucky spectators who will see the spectacle first-hand: –
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