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At the FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships this week in Roberval, Canada, FINA organized a seminar in collaboration with their Canadian hosts for the assembled team leaders, administrators and national team coaches from over 30 countries who freely shared ideas, concerns, information and proposals with their colleagues from around the world. Pierre Lafontaine, CEO […]
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The performances of the athletes in great women’s field will be something to see on Radio Canada during today’s 5K race. It will be very interesting to see how Poliana Okimoto of Brazil and Eva Fabian of the USA bounce back after their absolutely courageous and wonderfully paced 10K swim a few days ago. Poliana
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The organizers at the 2010 World Championships have prepared fireworks, a rousing open ceremonies, sand castles and rainbows for the athletes. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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Two FinishLynx® cameras are used at the finish of the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships in order to help the officials judge the proper finish of the athletes – who often come in large packs barreling to the finish. FinishLynx® is the world’s most popular and versatile digital photofinish and timing system. The system,
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The world championships have presented a variety of issues to the swimmers including a sudden shift in water temperatures from 24°C (75°C) to 17°C (62°C), clarification of swimsuit specifications, controversy that resulted in disqualifications, plenty of yellow cards, new champions, emerging swimmers, fast sprints, tactical racing, hypothermia, missed buoys, fat lips, cuts, scraps and bruises.
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Like the men’s 10K race at the 2010 World Open Water Swimming Championships where Valerio Cleri of Italy bulled his way to the finish in 17°C (62.6°C) water in Roberval, Canada, the 5K race is going to stacked with studs. However, unlike the tactical 10K race where the men paced themselves in the first half
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South African ice swimmers survive life-threatening water temperatures (4°C) to raise over R10,000 for Karoo school in coldest swim event in Africa, called the Speedo Ice Swim. The Speedo Ice Swim saw six cold-water veterans complete the mile race and 19 others swam 600 meters in the icy dam near bone-chilling Sutherland, Northern Cape, South
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In tomorrow’s women’s 5K world championship, there will be plenty of completely fresh swimmers like Danielle De Francesco of Australia, Alice Franco of Italy going up against the women who competed in the 5K and who are hungry for a world championship medal, including Poliana Okimoto of Brazil and Eva Fabian who collided and missed
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Swimming World Magazine raised the issue of swimsuits in its recent articles on the World Championships (here and here). While the articles report on the swimsuits, we made additional observations that we believe are noteworthy – especially in the build-up to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifier in Shanghai. These races in Roberval are considered
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Valerio Cleri, the reigning 25K world champion who finished fourth in last year’s 10K, continued the winning ways of Italy at today’s 10K world championship. Playing his cards just right, Cleri bulled his way to the front on the last loop to win convincingly in 2:00:00 over Russians Evgeny Drattsev and Vladimir Dyatchin. While the
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