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Globo TV‘s spectacular 2-hour live television coverage with seven cameras – including helicopter aerial footage – of the King of the Sea Challenge (Rei Do Mar Desafio) can be seen here. Winner Trent Grimsey pulled a classic stealth move on the third loop. Trent moved 30 meters to the left of the lead pack – […]
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Deck-ups (noun): A pool training set where athletes (triathletes or open water swimmers) pull themselves out of the pool after each swim and dive back into the water for the next swim during an interval-training set. The set prepares the athletes for the end of an open water race with an onshore finish or the
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Three marathon swimming adventurers have crossed the Atlantic Ocean using the strength of the ocean currents: In 1998, Benoit Lecomte traveled 3,716 miles from Cape Cod, USA to Brittany, France in 73 days, stopping at the Azores Islands. In 1991, Guy Delage swam and floated 2,335 miles alone from the Cape Verde Islands to Barbados.
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Trent Grimsey pulled away on the third loop at today’s King of the Sea Challenge (Rei Do Mar Desafio) in Rio de Janeiro, using a 6-beat kick and a 88 stroke-per-minute tempo. He resorted to a 92 spm tempo on the last loop to keep his competitors at bay and capture the inaugural King of
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There are an increasing number of open water races around the world that offer everything: interesting and challenging courses, live television coverage, exposure via archived online streaming, competitive elite fields, age-group and fitness swimmer heats, convenient hotel accommodations, 50-meter pools for pre-race training, comprehensive safety procedures and onshore entertainment. The Great Swim Series in Great
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The 5K race at the South American Beach Games (Primeros Juegos Suramericanos de Playa) was held in very cold water in Montevideo Uruguay yesterday. Race results for the 5K and 10K races will be reported shortly. Athletes from Netherland Antilles, Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela
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Swimming World Magazine covered the inaugural 2K King of the Sea Challenge (Rei do Mar Desafio see below) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro. Poliana Okimoto won overall in 25:07 while 29-year-old local swimmer Rafael Goncalves won the men’s race that was undecided until the run up the beach. “It was tough, but a
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Two-time Brazilian Olympian Luiz Lima completed the first swim across the stretch of beaches of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro from Leme to Pontal. The 37K swim (see below) took 8 hours and 15 minutes and was done to honor the tenth anniversary of the death of Tim Maia who created the famous song
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The International Olympic Committee announced this week that there will be no new swimming events added to the London 2012 Olympic Games. This leaves the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim as the sole open water swim in the Olympics. But what a race it will be – to be held in Serpentine Lake in the centre
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The Los Angeles Times reported that a strong friend of open water swimming in the USA, Chuck Wielgus is a finalists for the vacant chief executive position at the US Olympic Committee. Chuck is currently the CEO of USA Swimming which has enjoyed an unparalleled track record of Olympic success as it continues to expand
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