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There were no surprises at the opening race of the 2012 FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup series – it was a totally exciting, down-to-the-finish, wild, crazy sprint among the world’s elite in the ocean course in Santos, Brazil. In the Olympic year, every race among the elite competitors is going to come down to […]
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Open water swimming tours, expeditions, camps, clinics, holidays and conferences are a great way for swimmers to mix the best of the aquatic environment and their like-minded colleagues on terra firma. Not only is swimming side-by-side with teammates and newly found friends enjoyable, but so is talking about the sport and sharing stories of races,
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HASSAN BEACH, Tunisia. The 2011 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nejib Belhedi swims day after day along the coast of his native Tunisia, continuing to build awareness of open water swimming. His 1400K Swim Across Tunisia started out as a one-man journey from western Tunisia last June. Over the past several months,
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Hometown heroes like Ana Marcela Cunha will take to their local waters today at the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup in Santos, Brazil. While the elite pro will be competing in the World Cup, amateurs and future generations of pros will be competing in the Maratona aquática internacional de Santos Renata Agondi. Watch here
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SANTOS, Brazil. Christiane Fanzeres, the Open Water Manager for the Brazilian Swimming Federation, announced that this Sunday’s FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup race from Santos, Brazil will be live streamed online. The race between 89 of the world’s top professional marathon swimmers, including a strong German team, will be broadcast live online starting at
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The English Channel, the Catalina Channel and the Molokai Channel are well-known open water swimming challenges around the world. It takes hard work and dedication to cross these channels. But are there other warm-water, mini channels around the world for people who want to become a channel swimmer but do not want to swim 20
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Jim Boucher, President of the Surrey County ASA, described the conditions and competition at the 2012 World Winter Swimming Championships in Jurmala, Latvia in colorful terms. “I was there, but the Western European blokes tended to lose out to Eastern Europeans who looked like they generally caught and killed their daily lunch rather than get
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“Because it’s there,” the famous words of English mountaineer George Mallory sum up well the thoughts open water swimmers have regarding big lakes around the world. George’s answer to “Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?” can apply to open water swimming where swimmers tackle big lakes all around the world. From Lake Michigan
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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California. One size definitely does not fit all in the open water swimming world. From training habits to feeding, open water swimmers follow an exceeding wide range of parameters. And shaving down is no different. Some athletes like English Channel world record holder Petar Stoychev and Olympians like Mark Warkentin shave down for
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U.S. Masters Swimming will present an Open Water Swim Clinic in conjunction with the USMS 25K Open Water Nationals in Noblesville, Indiana. The clinic is jam-packed with several experienced open water swimmers and headlines two Triple Crown swimmers (Mallory Mead and Jim Barber. The coaching staff has more than 100 years of open water swimming
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