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Kate Greene, winner of the Adventure Swim Contest sponsored by Jamie Patrick, is on her way on her open water swimming adventure across America. Greene’s plan is flexible, but you already has two swims off her list. She swam in Percy Priest Lake to Bear Island in Tennessee on swim #1 and crossed the Mississippi […]
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Trent Grimsey is stepping up from his dominant position in 1-2 mile ocean swims to the ultimate proving ground, the English Channel. A fast pool swimmer and top professional marathon swimmer has begun to prove himself in colder waters from South Africa to Canada. His road to Cap Gris Nez will take him from his
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Many great Australian swimmers have tried, but none have succeeded in Trent Grimsey‘s latest attempt to set the world record in the English Channel. Tammy van Wisse, Shelley Taylor-Smith and Ky Hurst have tried, but this season 3-time Australian open water swimming champion will give it a whirl between September 7th and 14th under the
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Leslie Andrews, a former Disney and ESPN executive, wrote a commentary called How To Get Girls in Sports Illustrated Magazine on how the game of golf can attract more women to the game. Andrews writes, “Golf is more of a social activity for most women, not a game or sport. Dig around and find a
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The Nubble Light Challenge is one of the most northerly ocean swim in the continental USA. The 2.4-mile ocean swim in York, Maine starts on Long Sands Beach, continues through the “gut”, the channel between the lighthouse island and the mainland, and finishes with a sprint to Short Sands Beach. The race takes place on
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Furiously Fast Flotsam is a great name in the open water swimming community. The duo of Phyllis Ho and Kenn Lichtenwalter will team up in a two-person relay to swim around Manhattan Island on June 23rd. Both Ho and Lichtenwalter are avid open water swimmers from New York who both volunteer and compete in numerous
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Way back in the pre-Olympic marathon swimming era at the 3rd FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships held in Dubai in 2004, Thomas Lurz was making a name for himself as a 25-year-old world champion open water swimmer. In the river through the heart of Dubai, he won a dramatic come-from-way-behind victory over Alan Bircher
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Two open water swimming landmarks in South Africa include Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. Lewis Pugh has used both to sight off of when he has swum in the ocean near the tip of the African continent. “While Cape Point is structurally more impressive, I prefer the Cape of Good Hope,” explains
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The world of physics involves the study of matter to understand how the universe behaves, is ruled by laws, measures and formulas. Although physicists continue to explore fields covering the minute to the gigantic from Newtonian mechanics to quantum mechanics, the rules of physics are clear and absolute. Conversely, the world of biology, a natural
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“I hate walls. I hate turns,” says northern California native Haley Anderson. An unusual statement to say the least from the reigning NCAA champion in the 500-yard freestyle, a gut-busting 4-minute swim that requires 19 flip turns. But the personable 20-year-old has good reasons for her dislike of walls and turns. She is one of
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