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Courtesy of Quinn Fitzgerald, Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. Last year, The Olympic Club Rough Water Team set a goal to be the first six-person relay team in history to complete the Oceans Seven – seven major channel crossings around the world. “We did Catalina last summer, we’ll do Molokai to Oahu this summer and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What is very cool in the open water swimming community – from ocean swimming to ice swimming, from wild swimming to marathon swimming – is the natural, person-to-person passing of information and advice from the older generations to the younger. Because everything is changing so rapidly (e.g., technology, geopolitics,
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The Spanish Government agency responsible for sport, Consejo Superior de Deportes, annually grants honors called the Premios Nacionales del Deporte to athletes, sport federations, and organizations. The Spanish Royal Family gives these prizes in various categories. Last year, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee Montserrat Tresserras was similarly honored by the Spanish Royal Family.
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Courtesy of International Winter Swimming World Championships, Lake Bled, Slovenia. 100 J 1. MCGOWAN, Ellery 46 South London Swimming Club 1:49.47 49.86 59.61 2. DUDINA, Nadezhda 47 1:49.65 50.72 58.93 3. PORTINGALE, Jacky 50 South West Seals 2:23.88 1:04.67 1:19.21 4. IVANITSKAYA, Vera 48 Fzpso 2:43.86 1:11.17 1:32.69 5. ELVET, Malle 48 U-Klubi 3:02.62 1:24.45
FINA – the international governing body for the sport of swimming – has once again failed in its key role as guardian of the aquatic sports and athletes. In the past, FINA has consistently been on the wrong side of key issues involving the integrity of swimming. Among them are the issues of doping and
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How Clean Is The Charles River? Courtesy of Lily Moy, Charles River, Massachusetts. The Charles River flows from Hopkinton to the Boston Harbor has been a key waterway was named by King Charles I of England upon the first colonials moving to the area in Massachusetts. The 80-mile river has been utilized for all kinds
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Oscar Rubio, Open Water World Tour, Alameda, California. The last event of the OWWT, the Crown Beach Swim Race took place on August 11, 2018 at Robert W. Crown Memorial Beach in Alameda, CA. Twenty eight swimmers each competed in one of three distances, 0.5 miles, 1.2 miles, and 2.4 miles. Conditions were
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Courtesy of Nick Adrian, Huntington Beach, California. The Mysteries at the Museum segment on Walter Poenisch will be broadcast on September 19th at 9:00 pm New York time on the Travel Channel. Future reruns of the broadcast are listed here. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Jessica Steinberg.
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