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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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“I think all swimmers have a love-hate relationship with the sport,” says 7-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard. “But these days I probably only hate it 5% of the time, which is good.” Beard is gearing up for her fifth consecutive Olympic Games, if she can qualify for the USA Swimming Team at its upcoming Olympic
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Anna Wardley successfully completed her solo swim around Portsea Island in 7 hours 20 minutes yesterday to become the first person to complete the 21-km (13-mile) route. The 13°C (55°C) waters in one of the UK’s busiest harbours invigorated the British adventurer, “[The Five Island Swim Challenge] was absolutely amazing and I couldn’t have hoped
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Alexandra Paul is a prolific Hollywood film and television actress and activist. She also has a love of marathon swims in tropical waters. Sh has done marathon swims in Fiji (19 km), Bonaire (10 km), Maui (9.6 miles) and Key West (12.5 miles) between her television hosting and film appearances. Spending so much time in
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University of Florida Gator swimmer Joey Pedraza took a different route from Cuba to Florida than the more celebrated marathon swimmers of the modern era, Penny Palfrey and Diana Nyad. Pedraza was recently named to the 2012-2013 USA Open Water National Team – an honor for sure, but an unusual one for a swimmer born
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David Handley announced the start of the Fiji Swims, “We have a new home on the Fiji mainland at the Westin Denarau Resort & Spa, but the race distance remains 19 km on August 23rd and 2.7 km and 1 km on August 25th on Beachcomber Island. Australian Olympians Shane Gould, Neil Rogers and Malcolm
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The who’s who of the global open water swimming community are gathering in New York City for the June 23rd Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The annual 28.5-mile circumnavigation swim around the heart of New York City has grown so popular that is no longer an issue if a swimmer will complete the 28.5-mile loop, but
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Back on September 5th 1988, the renowned Olympic and world champion Janet Evans found herself on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu. Later in September, she traveled to Korea and won three gold medals (in the 400m individual medley, 400m freestyle and 800m freestyle) at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. But she took a stop in her training
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The eyes of the marathon swimming world continue to spin on the global axis. 2012 started off with a slew of Cook Strait solo swims between North and South Islands in New Zealand, a cancelled professional 88 km race from Maratón Internacional Hernandarias – Parana race in Argentina, and
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If not him, who? If not now, when? If not the English Channel, where? George Thornton has answered these questions for himself. Next month the 72-year-old American industrial psychology professor at Colorado State University, trains and dreams of becoming the oldest man to swim the English Channel. 70-year-old Roger Allsopp‘s celebrated record set the bar
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