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Simon Griffiths is the Publisher, Founder and Editor of H2Open Magazine, the world’s first and only magazine devoted to open water swimming. The former triathlon writer wants others to appreciate open water swimming in its many guises as he does: as a lifestyle, as a healthful exercise that challenges the mind and body, as an […]
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Daily Mail And Billy Butlin’s English Channel International Races Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the U.K. abuzz with open water swimming in the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics, the open water swimming phenonemon calls to mind the professional English Channel races that were held in the 1950’s. The first race was held
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How big was open water swimming in the 1940s and 1950s in America and Great Britain? Huge. Not only were the Billy Butlin’s English Channel International Races the rage during the 1950s, but also world-class swimmer Esther Williams starred in a series of films in the 1940s and early 1950s known as aquamusicals which featured
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Bruckner Chase, Swimming & Ocean Sports Editor of the Liberty Sports Magazine, provides this winter swimming commentary and advice: As a Master swim team, the Dolphin Club has some of the best-attended swim workouts and club events in the country. Members from age 20-80 log impressive yardage throughout the year, and not a single yard
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From Tunisia and American Samoa to North Alaska and Thailand, adults are recognizing the need to teach the next generation how to swim and, specifically, how to survive and save others in the open water. Organizers of the 18th Laguna Phuket Triathlon launched Laguna’s Swim Survival Program this week. Schools in Phuket, Thailand are bringing
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CANDELARIA, Zambales, Philippines. The Zambales Dragon Boat Festival in Luxon, Philippines will add an open water swim to its festivities in the 112-hecare Uacon Lake. Governor Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. explained, “We want Zambales to be known not just as a tourism destination, but also a sports tourism destination since we have the best venues for
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While the 2008 Beijing Olympics called richly-deserved attention the economic success of China and showcased its proud citizenry and international might through gigantic, elaborate structures created for the Olympic Games and subsequent generations of Chinese athletes, the architecture of the 2012 London Olympics are more in line with the traditional British reserve with a dash
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Lelané Rossouw-Bancroft is following in the footsteps of other great extreme swimmers such as Lynne Cox, Rachel Golub, Patricia Sener, Cristian Vergara, Ram Barkai, Andrew Chin and Lewis Pugh, by attempting a certified Ice Swim (a one mile swim in water of 5°C (41°F) or less without a wetsuit or neoprene cap. Dedicating her swim
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Special Olympics announced its next World Summer Games location this week. The next Special Olympics World Summer Games will held in Los Angeles, California in 2015. Coming off of the successful introduction of open water swimming at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece, the organizers are already looking for an exceptional
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DURBAN, South Africa. Environmental campaigner Lewis Pugh gave a speech in Durban, South Africa this evening, the day before the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Leaders from different faiths and world leaders heard Lewis speak about the fight against climate change, ending with the following plea: The right to have our environment
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