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Next year’s Nike Swim Miami‘s multi-race event in April should be its biggest and best event ever with a pre-race camp offering training methods and stroke analysis, an international field of top swimmers and enjoyable and safe Miami Mile, 5K and 10K races for swimmers of all ages and abilities. Because the Nike Swim Miami […]
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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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The 2010 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming 5K and 10K Championships will be the signature event over an exciting week of open water swimming events in Long Beach, California during the first week of June. Elite athletes as well as age-group swimmers and masters athletes will be in for quite a treat. Marine Stadium,
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The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is currently running a public online poll on what are open water swimmers’ greatest fears in the open water. Besides the choices at the online poll at here on the left at The Daily News of Open Water Swimming, swimmers have emailed in the following fears: “SHARKS, SHARKS,
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Think About It Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming is currently running a public online poll on what people do or think about while open water swimming (both in training and in competition). Besides the choices at the online poll on left at The Daily News of Open
Swim Ireland had more open water races and more swimmers in 2009 involved than ever before. Additionally, there are many local ‘pods’ growing towards club status and Irish swimmers participated FINA open water international events with the ultimate goal of participating in the 2012 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim. Irish swimmers also set a Guinness Book
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The Pool Of Pain Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming stars Trent Grimsey of Australia, Chad Ho of South Africa will join the world 5 km and 10 km open water swimming champion Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer several other elite swimmers from Germany, Russia, Australia, South Africa and Canada at the
Sunday’s pro 10K King of the Sea Challenge in Brazil kicked off its festivities with a lively press conference in Rio de Janeiro. With Brazil’s top men, Filipe Farias, Fabio Lima, Glauco Rangel and Luis Lima, sharing the King of the Sea podium with their foreign competitors, the men talked about the new 10K race
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The 5K Acapulco International 2010 Swim website was announced yesterday. For more information on this warm-water 1K, 1.5K and 5K event on January 23, go here. Hundreds of swimmers from FINA pro marathon swimmers to children, budding triathletes and competitive masters swimmers swim across the beautiful Acapulco Bay on Mexico’s west coast. For those who
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