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Decade Of Kings And Queens In Rio de Janeiro
Courtesy of Patrick Winkler , Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In December 2019, the King and Queen of the Sea – or Rei e Rainha do Mar in Portuguese – celebrates its 10th anniversary. Over the last decade, over 60 thousand amateur and a few dozen elite swimmers, including World and Olympic Champions have
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Kenting Sea Swim
<i>Courtesy of <a href=”http://www.wowsa.org”target=”_blank”>WOWSA</a>, <a href=”http://openwaterswimming.wiki/index.php?title=Huntington_Beach”target=”_blank”>Huntington Beach</a>, California</i>. <br><br/> The <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/worlds-largest-open-water-swimming.html”>world’s largest open water mass participation swim</a> is held in Taiwan – the 3.3 km <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/worlds-largest-open-water-swimming.html”>Sun Moon Lake International Swim Carnival</a> – but Taiwan is also home to other large <a href=”http://www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimm.wpengine.com/2009/12/open-water-swimming-dictionary.html”>mass participation swims</a> where communal enjoyment in tropical waters and post-swim fraternization
Getting Marathon Swimming Into The Summer Olympics
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. n August 20th 1984, John York (8 hours 54 minutes 1 second), Rick Heltzel (9 hours 4 minutes 12 seconds), Mohamed Ibrahim Elwakeel (9 hours 23 minutes 6 seconds), Carol Lee Heltzel (9 hours 28 minutes 28 seconds), Alison Streeter (9 hours 33 minutes 0 seconds), Lamiaa Zahy (9
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Staying Health In Dirty Water
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There is no holiday when you are a hard-core open water swimmer. You might be on vacation, but you will find yourself always looking at bodies of water and thinking, “I wonder what the water temp is? I wonder if anyone has swum there before? I wonder how long
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Wearing Make-Up In Open Water
I will get to this tomorrow……completely ridiculous to do this! The girls we swam at at SMU in college caked it on. I will try to find a pic of one of them 😉 Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Extreme Journeys with Jaimie Monahan
Extreme Journeys with Jaimie Monahan
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Mariachi For Marathoners
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mariachi is a style of music and musical group performance that dates back to at least 18th century in western Mexico. The distinctive instrumentation, musical genre, performance and singing styles, and clothing is festive, . Sea Donkey will kickoff the 2018 WOWSA Talks & WOWSA Awards on November 9th
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Colleen Blair Pioneers Across The North Minch
Courtesy of WOWSA, North Minch, Scotland. Colleen Blair first person to swim the 24 nautical miles across the North Minch from Isle of Lewis to the Scottish mainland when the water temperature was 9 – 13.8°C. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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FINA Ideas
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dear Mr. Marculescu, after the first year with the new OWS world series formula, with reference to the meeting will be held in Cancun the next 19 October I would like to introduce some remarks and suggestions: 1) The 2 news series obtained different results: – the 10 km