Courtesy of The Olympics On The Record. Most sports fans around the world know or have heard about the achievements and unprecedented Olympic record of Usain Bolt, the world’s most successful sprint runner. Most sports fans around the world also do not necessarily assign raw flat-out speed with Japanese runners who do not appear to […]

Courtesy of Caixin, Taierzhuang, China. Founded in the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), developed in the Yuan Dynasty (1279–1368), and prosperous in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644 to 1912) Dynasties in China, Taierzhuang is located in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Center, the last 3 km of the ancient canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in

Courtesy of Dr. Seán O’Connell, Elbow Beach, Bermuda. In 2016, Lori King completed a 58.7 km swim around Bermuda in 21 hours 19 minutes, starting and finishing at Elbow Beach. Her swim was the first successful circumnavigation swim around Bermuda since Dr. Seán O’Connell pioneered the first Round Bermuda Swim in 1976. In 2017, Dr.

Courtesy of Joely Bouckaert, Rottnest Channel Swim, Western Australia. The Rottnest Channel Swim is one of the world’s iconic ocean swims. At 19.7 km from Cottesloe Beach on the western Australian mainland to Thomson Bay on Rottnest Island solo and relay ocean swim is held in Western Australia every February. The event categories for competitors

Courtesy of Paul Lecomte, The Longest Swim, Pacific Ocean. Paul Lecomte, the project manager for The Longest Swim, Ben Lecomte‘s transoceanic stage swim attempt across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco reported from Oahu, “It’s been now a month that we touched land with Ben and the crew in Honolulu, Hawaii. It has

Courtesy of Scott Zornig, Swim Camp Mexico, Sea of Cortez. Scott Zornig is organizing the fourth Swim Camp Mexico in Baja California on the Sea of Cortez. Swim Camp Mexico IV will be held between March 13th – 17th 2019 at the Rancho Lenero Resort in Cabo Mexico. Zornig describes the camp, “If you like

Courtesy of Olympic Channel. Greta Andersen, a dual inductee in the International Swimming Hall of Fame and the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, talks about her Olympic pool swimming experiences and achievements prior to swimming and setting records in solo marathon swims, channel crossings and lake races around the world in an Olympic Channel