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The top finishers and the oldest and youngest swimmers at the Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Grace Bay, Providenciales receive some really cool awards created by local artist Stanford Handfield. His unique and beautifully crafted conch shell trophies have a ceramic base with hand-painted place details for the individual winners of the Caribbean Sea […]
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The call is every coach’s nightmare. The call, in fact, is unimaginable. “Your athlete was not found for two hours. He passed away.” Unreal. Unbelievable. This communication, so unfortunately real, was relayed by officials to Hall of Fame coach Richard Shoulberg of the Germantown Academy in October 2010. Since 1905, this kind of call never
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Dan Martin is nearly ready to jump off the East Coast of the United States of America and literally swim across the Atlantic Ocean in an audacious attempt at history in his Global Triathlon. His tweets give a hint as to his humor and mindset. Follow Martin’s swim across the Atlantic here. June 1 I’m
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The top secret news about one of the greatest marathon swimmers in contemporary times, kept under wraps for months due to the audacious nature of the attempt, was first publicly announced by LoneSwimmer today. Donal Buckley unveils the official news here. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Swim Across America Dallas raised over US$350,000 in its first year, a huge start for the charity swim that raised money for the Innovative Clinical Trials Center at Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center in Dallas, Texas. With 10 Olympic swimmers among the 225 participants, these swimmers really know how to raise money. Under the
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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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As the northern hemisphere summer heats up and open water swims start to dot the weekend calendars, the number of swimmers who take to the oceans, lakes and bays in neoprene wetsuits increases. The sleek look of black skimming along the surface along shorelines and coastal waterways is a sure sign of the popularity of
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Decades of training, years of preparation, dreams of the Olympics. That is what all the marathon swimmers have under their swim caps. Yet, as open water swimmers, they must expect the unexpected…and that is what they are getting in Setúbal Bay along the Portuguese coast 40 km south from Lisbon, Portugal for the 2012 FINA
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At the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships, teammates, swimming fans and prognosticators were shocked when world and Olympic champion Grant Hackett did not qualify for the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Hackett had everything you could imagine in an open water swimmer: proven sprinting speed (with a 1:46 200m freestyle),
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