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In the early years of global connectivity before online social media changed the way people communicated, John Walker and Chris Davis changed things. In April 1995, John wrote a highly distributed article on open water swimming via a usenet newsgroup, which was the primary online information exchange at the time. “I’m actually not sure when […]
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Craig Lord wrote a comprehensive report on the circumstances of Fran Crippen’s tragic death on Swim News here.
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Dr. Kim Blair, the founding director of MIT Center for Sports Innovation, predicted that the two key words for the future of sports innovation are social and smart. “Social is about being able to share your successes with friends. Smart means a continuation of personalization used to help athletes improve their performances or spectators to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The innovative Biomimicry Guild was founded by Dayna Baumeister and Janine Benyus who authored the book Biomimicry, Innovation Inspired by Nature. Dayna explains that many solutions to mankind’s problems – from design of products to medicinal solutions – can be found in nature. “Biomimicry represents a paradigm shift away
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The Flowers Group, the Ministry of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports & Culture (Cayman Islands Government), Red Sail Sports, Esso are sponsoring Penny Palfrey on her Bridging the Cayman Islands swim. The attempt is an 80-mile attempt to swim between Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac, touching Little Cayman along the way, in the Cayman Islands in
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Sometimes you cannot say enough about some people – especially those people who swim 830 miles over 56 days around the whole of Ireland. As Nuala Moore explained about the 2006 swim (see map above), “Round Ireland Swim team were five of us mainly, swimming 35 days over a 56-day period, with Henry O Donnell
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At the Maratón Acuático Internacional Ciuded de Rosario, Francisco Hervas of Spain (middle on left) swam big-time. Standing proudly on top of the podium, Francisco won his first FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix race in Argentina, beating the taller Brian Ryckerman, an Olympian from Belgium (left) and Alexander Studzinski of Germany (right). Photo by
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The picturesque Burgh Island Swim event will take place on September 4th when an estimated 160 swimmers take to the one-mile swim off Bigbury on Sea off the South Devon coast. The swim that will offer one of Britain’s most spectacular round-island swims. The approximate time for the swim is 40-60 minutes and registration for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jack LaLanne, a renowned and early fitness icon in the United States, died this week at the age of 96. He had a popular television show and was always doing exhibitions in the open water to colorfully demonstrate his fitness and how important fitness is for everyone. In 1954
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Michael Read, Today On WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Huntington Beach, California. An epic swim. Michael Read did them. Over and over and over again. He is a legend. Like few others in the sport. 33 times across the English Channel, one which started with frost on the ground. Beyond the English Channel, he
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