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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
USA Swimming had specific criteria when it hired its first Open Water Program Manager: a fast (All-American swimmer), safety-oriented (beach lifeguard) individual with coaching experience. With dozens of candidates to choose from, Bryce Elser led the pack and settled into his new position quickly. An interview with Bryce is posted here. Bryce mentioned that he […]
It took a century, but the lack of finances caused the cancellation of the Delfshavense Schiekampioenschappen race. The historical race will, hopefully, be brought back for another 100 years of fun and challenge. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Haley Anderson of Granite Bay, California and USC is coached by the renowned Dave Salo and multi-time national open water swim team coach Catherine Vogt. Copyright © 2011 by Open Water Source
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Frank Flowers assembled a massive team of volunteers, medical professionals, government officials and local navigational experts and mariners to help Penny Palfrey achieve her 68-mile marathon swimming goal in the Cayman Islands. From kayaker Jeff Kozlovich of Honolulu who drags a heavy Shark Shield behind him and alongside Penny to her communications team, medical team
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A public online betting site is marketing its services for the 2011 World Swimming Championships. “[This event] presents a unique opportunity for sports betting fans to make some good betting predictions and knowledge of previous results, standings, dates and fixtures is a definite advantage. At this point in the live 2011 World Championships betting campaign,
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Simon Griffiths, Publisher & Editor of H2Open Magazine announced that issue #3 went to the printer over the weekend for a June 13th availability while the digital version will be available this Friday. The magazine has plenty of colorful photographs, comprehensive coverage, compelling content, myriad topics. It is an outstanding magazine for both the casual
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Australian Women Excel In The Open Water American basketball players. Brazilian soccer players. Canadian ice hockey players. Russian chess players. Japanese judoists. Korean taekwando athletes. The sporting world knows that these countries, their culture, and these athletes go well together. The combination usually end up with world champions and a slew of world-class athletes. So
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Penny Palfrey will finish on a white sand beach after going through a beautiful coral reef on Grand Cayman Island’s eastern coastline, escorted by Jeff Kozlovich of Honolulu and Richard Clifford of New York City. Photos from Penny’s Cayman Brac to Little Cayman channel swim courtesy of Image by Spike. Copyright © 2011 by World
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Penny Palfrey will be swimming from Cayman Brac to Little Cayman Island – a 5-mile channel swim – today at 12:30 pm New York time (11:30 am local time in the Cayman Islands). You can follow Penny’s attempt here. The short swim is a warm-up for her 68-mile swim attempt from Little Cayman to Grand
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