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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Open Water Source was privy to one of the most fascinating and beautiful open water swimming brochures ever created. Sergey Novikov, Founder and President of the Russian American Community Association and President of Meeting of the Sun North America, will soon launch a website and distribute a brochure with powerful imagery and inspirational information of […]
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Saarbrücken, Germany. Hannes Vitense of Germany is pushing his athletes to reach their potential in a number of ways…all in good fun. “We began 2004 a very big project here in Germany at one of the world’s most modern training centers for swimmers and triathletes in Saarbrücken. The plan has been in the works for
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It did not take long for the formality of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society (LTSS) to excite the marathon swimming community. Within weeks of its formation, 9 athletes have signed up to swim the length of the 21-mile lake high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains between the states of California and Nevada. “Times are
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END-WET, which stands for the Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test, is a 26-mile mixed-sports event where solo swimmers and relay swimmers pit themselves against other endurance athletes down the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Oslo, Minnesota. Produced by the ENDracing, the July 21st event includes kayakers, surfskiers, stand-up paddle boarders as
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While the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup moves to Viedma, Argentina this Saturday, the ultra-marathon professional swimmers on the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit will be in for a long day on Sunday, February 5th. A week after they competed in a down-to-the-wire 57K race from Santa Fe to Coronda, the marathon
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Source will look at all the 2012 Olympic hopefuls and dark horses in the series of perspectives on this year’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the London Olympics. Fans of the sport know well gold medal favorites like Keri-Anne Payne, Martina Grimaldi, Thomas Lurz and Spyridon Gianniotis,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Discovery Channel’s Shark Week describes ten places around the world where sharks can be readily seen and are always around. 1. Cocos Island in Costa Rica with loads of hammerheads and whitetip reef sharks. 2. Isla Mujeres in Mexico with pods of giant plankton-feeding whale sharks. 3. Great Barrier
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When will JetLevs be used in open water swimming and triathlon competitions? Our guess is that it will not be that far off. Paddle boards, kayaks, Boston Whalers, canoes and watercraft of all kinds are used to escort swimmers and monitor open water swimming competitions around the world. Occasionally, aerial viewing (to enhance the safety
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DOVER, English Michael Read MBE, President of the Channel Swimming Association, reminds people of the year 1962, the only year in the past 50 when the weather was so bad that there was not a single successful swim across the English Channel that year. Michael Jennings, a two-time English Channel swimmer, recalls, “Amazingly there were
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