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Can Petar Stoychev Repeat In Lac Memphremagog?

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Antonella Bogarin (ARG), Shelley Clark (AUS), Aurélie Côté (CAN), Rita Vanessa Garcia (ARG), Pilar Geijo (ARG), Heidi George (USA), Joanie Guillemette-Simard (CAN), Marianela Mendoza (ARG), Esther Nunez Morera (ESP), Noelia Petti (ARG) are the top professional marathon swimming women competing at this week’s 34K Traversée Internationale du Lac Memphrémagog. Pilar finished second last year to […]

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Top Canadians Return To California For Pan Pacs

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Aimeson King won the men’s race and Zsofia Balaz won the women’s 10 km race and will represent Canada at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 10K race in Long Beach, California. They will compete against many of the world’s best open water swimmers, including the top swimmers from

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Ocean Protection With G.E.M. And Expedia

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From California to Hong Kong, singer and spokesperson G.E.M. is carrying her message of protecting our oceans from becoming a plastic waste dump. G.E.M. explains her role with Project Kaisei here in Chinese with English subtitles that includes video clips from the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach, California. You can

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Tough, Always Risky Outings On The High Seas

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Two veteran, highly trained marathon swimmers proved why completing a channel swim is always a tough, risk-taking adventure where nothing is a given despite the best well-laid plans and years of focused training. Anne Cleveland started off confidently and calming stroking along before sunset last night in the Catalina Channel in 16°C (61-62°F) waters and

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RCP Tiburon Milers Take The 2010 Trans Tahoe Relay

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The RCP Tiburon Milers won the Trans Tahoe Relay in 3 hours and 18 minutes over 159 teams of competitively and recreationally-minded masters swimmers. Swimming at high altitude in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the 11.5-mile course took the teams across Lake Tahoe in its cool, blue waters from the

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Female Adventure Swimmers Needed For TV

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Assistant Producer Milly Fraser is currently searching for new competitors for the British Broadcasting Company’s Saturday night show Total Wipeout. According to Milly, Total Wipeout is a tough and demanding course that requires a high level of fitness to win the £10,000 prize. Strong swimmers typically perform well. Total Wipeout looks for contestants from a

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World’s Longest Marathon Swimming Relay Attempt Underway

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The Voice of Russia reported that 25 swimmers from Russia and China started on a 1,300 km marathon relay along the Amur River, the world’s ninth longest river that represents the border between the Russian Far East and northeastern China, to the Tatar Strait, a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of

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Russia vs. Australia vs. International All-Stars In Maui

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The 2010 Maui Channel Swim – a 9.6-mile inter-island relay between Maui and Lanai – is going to be a tremendously competitive race with the world’s fastest open water swimmers gathering in the tropical paradise. Race director Ian Emberson has never seen so many of the sport’s greatest heroes and heroines gather in the Maui

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