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Simon Holliday is a successful English Channel swimmer, but he is about to take upon a significantly more daunting task as a pace swimmer. Holliday will swim at the side of Dan Martin during the swim leg of his Global Triathlon. The humble endurance athlete will swim a few hours every day, side-by-side with Martin […]
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Evan Slater and Peter Taras co-authored Swell: A Year Of Waves, a magnificent book of beautiful photographs and engaging essays about giant ocean swells that start in different places around the world. These swells are the very forces that Dan Martin will feel with regularity as he strokes and struggles his way across the Atlantic
There are going to be a lot of Olympic medalists standing on the shore and swimming along Seven Mile Beach at the upcoming Flowers Sea Swim in the Cayman Islands on June 9th. But there will be a lot of swimmers hoping to receive one of the randomly awarded prizes at the end of the
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Haley Anderson, in the middle of hard training, threw down a quick 8:33 in the 800m freestyle at this weekend’s Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine, California. This was her final tuneup before she heads off to Setúbal Bay, Portugal for the 2012 FINA Olympic 10km Marathon Swimming Qualifier swim on June 9th. Her blazing speed
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Superstitions exist throughout the world of sports and life. When the outcome of an open water swim or race is unknown, some athletes feel compelled to introduce a bit more control and a dash more good luck into their equation. Many athletes across the competitive spectrum, borders and cultures, prepare the same way on the
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After three days of constant classroom sessions, POW workouts and open water workouts, the first Special Olympics open water swimming clinic came to a culmination at the 10th annual Butterfield 800m Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands. “The athletes have such passion and interest in open water swimming,” said Steven Munatones.
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Football has FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association). Pool swimming has FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation). Volleyball has FIVB (Fédération Internationale de Volleyball). These global organizations were established to bring uniformity, promotion and governance to their respective sports. What does open water swimming have? Frankly, it is an expansive alphabet soup. There are dozens of
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Under the leadership of Kester Edwards and coaches like Penny McDowall of the Cayman Islands and Rudsel Maria of Curaçao, the aquatic discipline of open water swimming is growing worldwide in the Special Olympics community. Rudsel Maria is exemplary, guiding his athletes for local Special Olympics open water swimming events and international competitions from Curacao
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Below is a partial list of the growing number of marathon swims (long distance swims, ultra-marathon swims) in America. These include established solo swims governed by an existing association or federation, relays, events and competitions, but it does not include stage swims by one individual or solo swims not governed by an existing association or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In May 9th-12th, the inaugural International Aquatic History Symposium and Film Festival (IAHSFF) was held during the International Swimming Hall of Fame weekend in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. The participants represented a diverse and illustrious group of aquatic enthusiasts from all over the world met for 4 days of speeches,
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