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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
First it was Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward who joined Nejib Belhedi on his 1400K Swim Across Tunisia along the entire coastline of Tunisia. Now it is Stuart Hyde and Thomas Noblett of the Windermere 12-way Warriors who will join in his Swim of Peace that will now be extended to Hyde Park. “There’ll […]
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Kester Edwards, a former board director of Special Olympics International, and Special Olympics Cayman Islands under the leadership of Maxime Everson organized the first international Special Olympics open water swimming clinic. Over 25 coaches and open water swimming athletes from the Caribbean nations and North America participated in a 3-day workshop. The athletes did a
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Rudsel Maria is a special man and open water swimming coach from Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The tall charismatic coach formerly focused on pool swimming after he furthered his study in the Netherlands. Coach Maria is now utilizing his talents and time to guide Special Olympics athletes
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Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. It is the largest and most populous of the three ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles. Its Swim for the Roses is part of a charity series of running, cycling and swimming events held every January where
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If there is anyone who has taken the sport of open water swimming hook, line and sinker, it is El Sharko, otherwise known as Christopher Blakeslee. The stalwart of the San Francisco Bay community and South End Rowing Club is one the oldest swimmers of the English Channel. He joined the Half Century Club on
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Star Burns Brightly To Make It Safe4Athletes Katherine Star is hosting a SAFE4ATHLETES cocktail party fundraiser at the home of Richard Riordan, the former Mayor of Los Angeles, on June 26th. Star explains the reason for the fundraiser, “For too many years, male and female athletes who have been abused by their coaches – physically,
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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore described Moore’s Law that predicts the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. While Moore’s Law does not specify exactly how a computer chip gets smaller, cheaper and faster, the well-noted rule of thumb predicts that they have steadily done so and
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Danny Gassaway is an open water swimmer from Oklahoma, about as far away from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as you can get on the North American continent. However, he is driven to enjoy and excel in the sport. This is his story: I competed in mostly every sport imaginable from 6 to 18 years
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Ken Barcinas and Pilar Shimizu won last year’s boy’s and girl’s division at the annual Cocos International Crossing in Guam. The Cocos International Crossing is a 3.52 km channel crossing from the uninhabited Cocos Island to Merizo Pier on the main island of Guam. The race has been held continuously since 1990 and is hosted
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Doug Woodring announced the Oceanic Big Five to celebrate World Oceans Day. “Open water swimmers, surfers, sailors, divers and paddlers have an IOU for the ocean and now it’s time to give back. Get your friends, teams or communities together, and create an ocean clean-up in places that normal beach cleanups might not take you.
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