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Where Are They Now? David Alleva Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. David Alleva was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in its Class of 1992 as an Honor Swimmer. Dr. Alleva’s six-year professional marathon swimming career started in 1988 with a third place at the 42 km (26-mile) Traversée Internationale […]
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Tom Fristoe, an extraordinarily successful and innovative aquapreneur, is adding to his daily workload. Tom, one of the fastest 51-year-olds in the pool and a former USA Swimming national open water swimming team member, is attempting to break Rendy Lynn Opdycke‘s 35-day completion of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. “My goal, with significant
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Winning a gold medal will be a matter of seconds and centimeters – even in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim that will take up to 2 hours. And few swimmers know that better than Keri-Anne Payne. She talks about training and, very importantly, sharpening her competitive open water edge at the British Gas Great Swim
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Penny Palfrey will attempt two swims of unimaginable magnitude within 2-3 months of each other. For her first swim, she will attempt to swim 103 miles northwards from the north coast of Cuba to somewhere along the Florida Keys in June. Her 168K solo swim in the very warm and fast-flowing waters of the Florida
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Benoit Lecomte will begin his 5,419-mile stage swim, called The Longest Swim, from Tokyo to San Francisco around May 15th. Many wonder, “How does a single human actually swim 8,721 kilometers?” Does he stop? What does he do when he is not sleeping? Is he assisted with fins? Does he wear a wetsuit? When does
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Safe4Athletes is a passionate advocate and non-profit organization started by Kathleen Starr. She wishes to push for athlete welfare where every athlete is provided a safe and positive environment free of sexual abuse, bullying and harassment. And she knows the pain and embarrassment that comes with training in an environment that is not free of
Interwet is a slang term used for content on the Internet and online social networks that pertains to aquatic activities, events or individuals covering topics from swimming to sailing. With products and services like GPS and Spot Tracker, individuals can follow swimmers and triathlons while onshore, at home or in the office via the Interwet.
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Paolo Eros Cerizzi is an adventure swimmer from Italy who previously swam across the Strait of Messina in Sicily, Italy wearing handcuffs. He has also done open water swims butterfly in Italy, but he will use a modified butterfly kick when he make an unprecedented attempt to swim the one-mile Flowers Sea Swim in the
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To The Arctic, a new MacGillivray Freeman film from Warner Bros. Pictures and IMAX® Filmed Entertainment, polar bears are shown swimming in the ocean, drafting off one another expertly and instinctively (see trailer below). Enter here for a chance to win an all-expenses-paid two-night trip for two to the Los Angeles premiere of the new
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Penny Palfrey will return to the site of one of her greatest adventures – the Cayman Islands – this June. She will participate in one of the world’s greatest open water swimming events, the Flowers Sea Swim. The last time Penny Palfrey was in the Cayman Islands, she swam 68 miles between Little Cayman Island
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