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Joe Dowd announced the annual July 4th Firecracker 8000. “It’s time again to brave Lake Natoma…all of it,” he encourages those who wish to swim 4.5 miles upstream in chilly water in northern California. But this year, Mother Nature has taken some of the chill and current off the agenda for Dowd and the rest […]
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The Olympic athletes are supported by a number of staff, from coaches and physiologists to translators and physicians. The pride in which the support staff takes in their role is visible and palpable. They wear their country’s uniform and colors just as proudly as the athletes themselves. They regularly go beyond the call of duty,
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The beauty of the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km is that 50 athletes from around the world have qualified for the Olympic final on August 9th (women) and 10th (men). The conundrum is that the athletes and coaches do not know which 50 will be in the starting line in London. The final decisions have yet
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FINA made its ruling on the controversy over the marathon swimming finalists. As a result, Benjamin Schulte of Guam accepted the invitation to compete in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km. Coached by Dennis Cotterell and Brian King on Gold Coast of Australia, 16-year-old Schulte will not only be the youngest swimmer by more than a
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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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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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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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