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Pool swimming has a ready room. As do aircraft carrier pilots. The television industry has its green room. And the open water world has its tents. Tents are usually put up near the start of an open water swim where the international field gathers to check-in, get their numbers and transponders, and mentally prepares themselves […]
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Heidi George (10 km) and Trevor Gillis (5 km) won their respective races at the Del Valle Open Water Festival in northern California. Barton Wells, founder of Athletic Director, finished second in the 10 km, but admitted there was nothing he could have done about George’s victory. “Heidi just swam away from me in the
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Zsofia Balazs qualified for the Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim as a result of her blazing closing sprint at the 2012 FINA Olympic Marathon Swimming Qualifier yesterday in Portugal. Balazs sealed the deal with confident move on the last lap where she had the fastest last split of the 41-women field. She become the first
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Yanqiao Fang qualified for her second Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim as a result of her fifth-place finish at the 2012 FINA Olympic Marathon Swimming Qualifier yesterday in Portugal. Hoping to improve on her 19th-place finish from Beijing, the Chinese swimmer finished fourth at the 10 km marathon swim at the 2010 World Open Water
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Paul Lundgren completed his press conference on Saturday afternoon and he is now resting comfortably for his scheduled 8 am departure on Monday, June 11th across the Sea of Cortez. The sea is calm and inviting and warm, from his launch point in Loreto. All systems are go for his unprecedented audacious 76-mile (122 km)
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The men’s 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier in Portugal’s Setubal Bay at 4 pm Portugal time (or 8 am Los Angeles time, 9 am Denver time, 10 am Mexico City, 11 am New York time, 5 pm Amsterdam / Cape Town time, 11 pm Beijing / Kuala Lumpur time, 12 midnight Tokyo time,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After her illustrious pool swimming career, 32-year-old Éva Risztov has resurrected herself as an Olympic marathon swimmer. After qualifying for her native Hungary’s Olympic swim team in the 400m and 800m freestyle, Risztov added the 10 km marathon swim to her Olympic schedule due to her close second-place finish
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Haley Anderson of the USA (shown with white swim cap on left) won the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier in Setubal Bay, Portugal to become a 2012 Olympian. Since she was a promising age-group swimmer, the junior-to-be at the University of Southern California has been constantly improving especially over
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Great Britain’s Sam Greetham, head referee and FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee member, addresses the 61 nervous athletes before the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier begins on Sunday in Setubal Bay, Portugal. The 25 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim finalists for London are still being sorted out hours after
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…Thomas Lurz, one of the Olympic marathon swimming gold medal favorites with Spyros Gianniotis, is busy training hard back home in Germany: Copyright © 2012 by World Open Water Swimming Associaiton
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