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USA Swimming is providing a new pre-race safety checklist for its athletes who compete in non-USA Swimming sanctioned races. USA Swimming‘s national team members are encouraged to get these questions answered before they make their decisions on what races to compete in. As USA Swimming states on its website, “It is common for USA Swimming […]
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Photo is courtesy of the Albert Dock Boxing Day Swim, an extreme cold-water swim held on December 26th in Liverpool, England. The swimmers participated in the swim organized by the Liverpool Open Water Swimming Club on behalf of the Heartbeat charity. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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In an article on Universal Sports, Jason Devaney talks about the recent success of USA Swimming and how its women are roaring back to life. Jason has high expectations for the leaders of the American pool team led by Rebecca Soni, Katie Hoff, Kate Ziegler, Natalie Coughlin, Dana Vollmer and Jessica Hardy. But from our
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Shelley Taylor-Smith is turning her passion for open water swimming towards 39 Solo Rotto swimmers who will compete in the Rottnest Channel Swim on February 26. Shelley knows how to keep an audience captivated and her 39 Solo Rotto swimmers are progressing no others. It is no wonder. At the 2010 Global Open Water Swimming
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The annual Peter Pan Christmas Day swim was cancelled due to the frozen lake. The hardy members of the Serpentine Swimming Club were shut out for the first time since 1981 when London’s Hyde Park was frozen over. Club secretary Brian Thomas jumped in where the lake ice was broken up (see below) and commented,
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Jack Bright tells the story of extreme winter swimming. It’s brutally cold, but exhilarating. Jack shows 1.PKO, a swim club in the Czech Republic that specializes in winter swimming in freezing water temperatures. “It is an organized sport with frequent races through the winter season. In the Czech Republic some of the world’s most extreme
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Laura Lopez-Bonilla, a two-time English Channel swimmer from Spain provides a perspective on marathon swimming after having seen the agony of defeat in three English Channel swimmers. I have suffered the pain of being short of my English Channel goals a few times. Preparation is key, but sometimes the outcome may not match expectations. Some
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In land-based sports, officiating can be difficult whether it is basketball or skiing. But in aquatic sports, much physical contact cannot be seen whether it is water polo or open water swimming. In order to ensure an objective, fair competition, FINA depends on volunteers who spend time to study and become certified in their chosen
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Open Water Source uploaded the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductees in Wikipedia as a first pass at giving more global online recognition to the sport of marathon swimming. Please review this Wikipedia entry on marathon swimming and feel free make any additional updates and add photos, graphs, charts and links. Copyright © 2010
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A popular 10K swim – the Por La Libre from Isla Mujeres to Cancún, Mexico – is receiving rave reviews from the over 500 swimmers who did the swim in 2010: “Marvelous, an adventure,” said Luis Ramon. “Just an experience that every open water swimmer has to do,” said Rafael Guarneros. “Last year we saw
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