Courtesy of LA 2024, Long Beach, California. LA 2024, the organizing committee for the proposed 2024 Los Angeles Olympic & Paralympic Games, released renderings of its Long Beach Sports Park that includes the Long Beach Waterfront where the Olympic triathlon and 10 km marathon swimming events will be held. LA 2024’s city-wide Sports Park innovation

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ingemar Macarine has had big plans for a few years now. He wants to become the first Filipino who successfully crosses the English Channel. It is an audacious goal, but one in which Macarine thinks about and trains for on a daily basis. “I am the first swimmer on

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anthony McCarley and Donal Buckley took a nearly straight line from Spain to Morocco – and took only 4 hours 26 minutes cross the Strait of Gibraltar on a tandem swim. “It was rough and tough,” reported McCarley as he added his third Oceans Seven crossing (after the English

Photos courtesy of Cimarron Anderson, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, Arizona. “As a swimmer, I want to finish every swim I attempt,” describes Kent Nicholas. “The S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge is very difficult swim, with Mother Nature’s deck of cards dealing a different hand at every lake.” The S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge is set in the rugged American southwest

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Team Tsukuyo was an all-female relay that successfully completed an English Channel two-way crossing between England and France. The team took 22 hours to complete the double crossing, negative-splitting the 42-mile swim in 11 hours 7 minutes on the first leg and 10 hours 53 minutes on the second

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Los Cabos Open Water Challenge is a 2 km, 7.2 km and 14.4 km marathon swim in San José del Cabo on Baja California, Mexico. The 14.4 km swim is held along an out-and-back course from Playa Palmilla to Playa Puerto Los Cabos and return to Playa Palmilla,