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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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The women’s 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier will be held today 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,
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The massive tsunami rocked northern Japan on March 11th 2011. After a 454-day journey across the Pacific Ocean, a dock washed ashore on Agate Beach in Oregon. Innumerable household items, commercial good and industrial products are currently drifting across thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. The first bits of debris have landed in North
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Haley Anderson of the USA (shown breathing on left) and Eva Risztov of Hungary just squeezed past their teammates to head the newest contingent of 2012 Olympians. In a tough-fought battle in a course that was either short or extremely fast Anderson won in 1:44:30.6, at least 15 minutes faster than the usual world-class 10K
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Stephen Redmond is flying from Ireland to Hokkaido, Japan today with his trusty team of four. He will set off sometime this coming week on his assault of the 7th and final swim of the Oceans Seven – the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan. Admittedly nervous about the language barriers and cold water, Redmond most
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Channel swimmer Michael Miller has seen his share of landmarks during the course of his open water swimming travels around the world. “First, the natural one…the sunrise over Molokai while swimming from Molokai to Oahu. It was very unforgettable. [On the opposite side of the Molokai Channel], the outline of Diamond Head on same swim
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When the pro marathon swimmers come screaming down along the feeding stations in Setubal Bay, Portugal at today and tomorrow’s FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier in Setubal Bay, Portugal, their coaches will be right at their side. Photo by FINA. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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There are several open water swimming heroes and heroines currently standing by onshore waiting to push off for their marathon swimming attempts. They are working with their crews and navigators to determine the optimal time for their unprecedented attempts. Paul Lundgren is down in Baja California with a probable start on June 11th for his
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The swimmers at the Olympic marathon swim will be swimming along a course that is precisely 10,000 meters. …but only if they are on the inside and swimming from buoy to buoy along the racing line. Although the Olympic marathon swimming 10 km course set-up and logistics are a
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