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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Communication is not about speaking what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean. This observation of human communications could not be more true between a support crew on an escort boat during the marathon or channel swim and the swimmer in the water. Quite often, […]
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Courtesy of Seti Afoa, Samoa Swim Series, Samoa. Seti Afoa announced the Samoa Swim Series schedule for 2018: December 9th 2017: 10 km Long Bay in Auckland, New Zealand, the Apolima Strait Swim Qualifier January 1st 2018: New Year’s Day Swim in Auckland, Brown’s Bay to Long Bay April 6th: 22.3 km Apolima Strait Swim
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Courtesy of Melissa Berkay, Manhattan Island, New York. College student Melissa Berkay specializes in the 200-yard butterfly where she represented Mills College at the 2016 NCAA Division III Championships. She also works part-time and writes about open water swimming for Swimming World Magazine. While the 200 butterfly is considered to be one of the most
Courtesy of Bill Welzien, Key West, Florida. Bill Welzien is closing in on his Century Swim around the 12.5-mile (20.1 km) Key West. On August 8th, he completed circumnavigation #93 with a 6 hour 3 minute swim with Terence White as his escort kayaker. “#93 was swum on a full moon; now I was with
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Courtesy of Madswimmer. The concept behind Madswimmer started when Jean Craven was on his honeymoon and stood on the Rock of Gibraltar looking across the water to Morocco. The South African extreme athlete thought, “I’m sure I can swim this.” In 2009, a bet of R100,000 saw him and a friend swim the 14.4 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 37-year-old Terence Parkin was born deaf, but he has never had a problem getting his name heard around the world. In addition winning a silver medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he has been a stalwart at the annual aQuellé Midmar Mile in his native
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Terry Laughlin Made The World A Better Place Courtesy of Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin. Terry Laughlin was an American swim coach, marathon swimmer, aquapreneur, and the founder of Total Immersion. At the age of 66, he passed away last week. His wife Alice and daughters Fiona, Carrie and Betsy announced his death today. “After
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Courtesy of FINA. Rob Muffels won the last leg of the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong in a tight race over Olympic champion Ferry Weertman. Results: 1. Rob Muffels (Germany) 1:53:10.40 2. Ferry Weertman (Netherlands) 1:53:11.10 3. Allan do Carmo (Brazil) 1:53:11.20 4. Jordan Wilimovsky (USA) 1:53:12.30 5. Christian Reichert
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Photo courtesy of Deep Blue Media. Results courtesy of FINA. Arianna Bridi did not need to place in the top finishers at the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong this weekend to wrap up her first career FINA World Cup season title, but just for good measure, she did in an extremely
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Courtesy of FINA. Simone Ruffini of Italy won his second consecutive FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup title, but the path to victory was not an easy one. His teammate Federico Vanelli set the tone of the FINA World Cup season when he dominated the first race of the season in Argentina. But then Ruffini
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