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Olympic 10km Marathon Swim in 2020 Summer Games Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. News from Japan keeps on coming in recent weeks. In a beautiful artistic display, more than 30,000 lanterns lit up Tokyo Bay this week in a creative bid for Tokyo to be selected as the site of the […]
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In a shocking development over the euphoria over Stephen Redmond’s recent achievement of the Oceans Seven challenge, the Tsugaru Strait Swimming Association has called into question whether Redmond did actually complete the historic swim. As Stephen Redmond was flying back to Japan and receiving accolades for his 12 hour 45 minute conquest of the Tsugaru
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The 25 finalists in the men’s Olympic 10km Marathon Swim at the 2012 Olympics are good-looking, seriously-minded, hard-working individuals from 23 countries on 5 continents. They define the word Olympic hero with their athletic talents, chiseled features, handsome countenance and personable charisma. The 25 macho ambassadors of the sport are quick to smile, lend an
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With over 170 betting shops in the Republic of Ireland, Paddy Power, the biggest Irish bookmaker with 170 betting shops in Ireland, laid down its odds for the top women competing in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games. The odds are posted as: Keri-Anne Payne at 11/5 Martina Grimaldi at
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The 300+ swimmers at the Vibes & Scribes Lee Swim in Cork, Ireland learned during the safety briefing that their fellow Irish open water swimmer Stephen Redmond was in the water in Japan for his fourth attempt across the Tsugaru Channel. This iconic inner-city river swim is 1700m down the North Channel of the River
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Marine safety expert and rescue swimmer Mario Vittone wrote about the Instinctive Drowning Response. The Instinctive Drowning Response was named by Francesco A. Pia, Ph.D. to describe what happens during a drowning. It happens quietly: no drama, no splashing, no waving, no yelling. Dr. Pia described the Instinctive Drowning Response in Coast Guard’s On Scene
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For 31 years, Shirley Loftus-Charley has been swimming in the Chris Greene Lake Swim in Virginia. An outstanding masters swimmer who has dominated her age group going on her fourth decade, she is a fixture in the pool and open water locally and nationally. In addition to her numerous pool records and honors, she was
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Antonio Saint Aubyn, a 36-year-old swimming coach from Cumaná, Venezuela, completed an unprecedented 63 km (39-mile) wetsuit swim from Punta de Piedras on Margarita Island to the Cumanagoto Marina in Cumaná City on the mainland of Venezuela yesterday under ideal conditions. He started at 2:28 pm on July 13th and finished at 11:10 am on
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With less-than-desirable conditions out in the English Channel this season and more than a few frustrated athletes and support crew hanging out in Dover waiting to catch a break in the weather, the year 1962 rings a bell. It was in 1962 when the weather was consistently so bad that there was not a single
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The 1-mile race is a relatively recent addition to the annual Chris Greene Lake Swim event, but it was an old-timer who took down the men’s record. Chris LaBianco, a former USA Swimming national open water swimming team member now swimming in the 40-44 year age group and fund-raiser extraordinaire, broke the existing record by
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