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Six Japanese swimmers swam 95 miles (150 kilometers) from Yonaguni Island in Okinawa, Japan through heavy winds and rough seas to Suao Harbor along the north eastern coast of Taiwan in an unprecedented cross-border swim. The relay swim was done as a show of gratitude to Taiwan for its help after the March earthquake and […]
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Portuguese man-o-war, jellyfish and sharks are marine life well-known to open water swimmers. Recently, an open water swimmer was attacked by a seal in San Francisco Bay and open water swimmers have been dive bombed by birds in Japan. But as more and more swimmers take to the open water, there are an increasing amount
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Like the 5K Team Event at the World Championships, team pursuit relays of all different formats are becoming more and more popular at open water competitions around the world. The Henley Swim at the picturesque Queenford Lakes, south of Oxford, featured a 4 x 1K relay. Similar to the team events at the Japan International
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Kane Radford of New Zealand boomeranged out of the cove at Angel Island and hedged his bets that a conservative course was the best bet in the 12th annual RCP Tiburon Mile. But once Kane was out in the middle of the channel between Angel Island and the Marin County town of Tiburon, he let
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The first 22 swimmers to swim the length of Lake Tahoe include a number of outanding marathon swimmers.
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Phil White of the Northeast Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) announced its schedule of open water swims in the Northeast Kingdom for 2012. June 16, 2012 – Son of a Swim IV is on June 16 on Lake Memphremagog, Newport, Vermont. An informal qualifying swim for those who need to complete a 2-, 4- or
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The family of Fran Crippen, was honored with the Athletes’ Appreciation Award at the 2011 United States Aquatic Sports annual convention. The Athletes’ Appreciation Award recognizes the individual who contributed most significantly to the athletes’ movement. Fran’s long-time coach at the Germantown Academy, Richard Shoulberg, was given USA Swimming’s highest award for making the most
Fran Crippen’s Presence Is Influential At US Aquatic Sports Read More »
One of the most memorable sporting images in the 21st century was the finish of the 2008 Beijing Olympics 100-meter butterfly. Michael Phelps came storming during the last half of the race to beat Serbia’s Milorad Cavic by 0.01 seconds. Serbia filed a protest after Michael won but the FINA officials reviewed the backup video
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In pool swimming competitions around the world, pool swimmers are timed by electronic touchpads. These plastic touch pads have sensitive pressure switches connected to a timekeeper’s console that instantaneously registers a finish. In the Olympics and some major competitions, a high-speed camera and three time judges are used in case of a mechanical malfunction. In
Timing Swimmers In The Pool vs. The Open Water Read More »
Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas was the USA Swimming Director of Physiology and Director of Sports Science from 2000 and 2008. He has the world’s largest data base of swimmer’s lactate threshold of anyone in the world due to his 20+ years of testing and analyzing lactate thresholds of elite swimmers from Russia to the U.S.A. Dr.