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2020 Tokyo Olympics Appears To Be Postponed Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Three students from one high school in Huntington Beach, California – a surfer, a water polo player and a volleyball player – are among the 11,000 athletes whose Olympic dreams were officially pushed off sometime in the future. An […]
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Lexie Kelly At-Home Dryland Workouts During Quarantine Courtesy of @SwimOutlet. Many competitive swimming pool are closed during the growing coronavirus pandemic. American open water swimmer Lexie Kelly is leading daily online workouts via Instagram Live @SwimOutlet this week. @lexiekellyswim is coaching live at-home dryland workouts every day from 10 am – 11 am California time.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jonathan Goldsmith is a model who is featured in “the world’s most interesting man” ad campaign that first began appearing in the United States in 2006. The fictional hero of the Most Interesting Man in the World Dos Equis beer campaign has a number of fanciful and fabricated talents
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Due to pool and gym closings worldwide during the pandemic, Vasa is experiencing an extremely high demand for Vasa swim training products.
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Adventurous Life Well Lived, Thomas Burgess Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. “Any fool knows that of all [English] Channel swimmers only Burgess has an earthly chance of getting there,” said a Dover escort pilot. “I have seen all the best of them, good, bad, and indifferent, including Montague Holbein, Jabez Wolfe, and Heaton; but Burgess’
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#stopolympics Picks Up The Pace Courtesy of USA Swimming, Colorado Springs, Colorado. When U.S. President Trump called Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week Friday, senior Japanese government spokesman Naoki Okada said, “The prime minister said firmly that he wanted to win the battle with coronavirus and make this summer’s Olympics a success.” There are
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FINA’s COVID-19 Advice Courtesy of FINA, Lausanne, Switzerland. FINA is the governing body of aquatics that includes global responsibilities to sanction the following: * FINA UltraMarathon Swimming Series * FINA/CNSG Marathon Swim World Series * FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier * World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships * FINA World Aquatic Championships (5 km, 5
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With new restrictions being increasingly implemented around the world, including a lockdown in California and Italy, swimmers are finding them increasingly isolated in their homes and communities – with no real understanding of how long they will be in quarantine, in a lockdown or in a shelter-in-place community. Movies set in the open water or
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Daina Bouquin, Stephen Rouch Win 25 Butterfly At Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival Courtesy of Phil White and Ginny Peck, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont, U.S.A. The 6th Annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival was held in a two-lane, 25-meter pool cut in the ice in Lake Memphremagog in Newport, Vermont. 30-year-old Daina Bouquin and 35-year-old Stephen Rouch won
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Bill Goll, Marathoning Pioneer & Hall Of Famer Courtesy of WOWSA. William “Bill” Goll, born about 1908, finished second in the 1930 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim to kick-start an illustrious career where he carved a niche as a true pioneer in the sport of marathon swimming. Goll was posthumously inducted in the International Marathon Swimming
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