Courtesy of Suzie Dods, Lake Tahoe Open Water Swimming Association. The Lake Tahoe Open Water Swimming Association is a chapter of the Northern California Open Water Swimming Association. The Northern California Open Water Swimming Association is a governing body that sanctions swims across Lake Tahoe and in San Francisco Bay. The sanctioned courses of the

Courtesy of WOWSA, Vienna, Austria. Yasunari Hirai from Tokyo is traveling the world in search of qualifying for his third consecutive Olympics. His most recent stop was at the Austria Swim Open event held in Vienna, Austria last weekend. He won the Vienna Swim Open Kaiserwasser, a multi-race open water swimming event with distances of

Courtesy of USA Swimming, Biscayne Bay, Florida. The Italian team – led by 2016 Olympic champion Gregorio Paltrinieri – donned themselves in black tech suits and black swim caps at the USA Swimming National Open Water Championships – were ubiquitous in the lead packs throughout the 5 km and 10 km races among the top