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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Rachele Bruni is one competitive athlete. When she dives into the water, she aims to win. And she often does. The 2016 Olympic silver medalist in Rio won the sprint race held before the La Patagones Viedma, the first race in the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup […]
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Video of the 2015 24 Hour Swim Relay courtesy of Lisa Amorao, Cathy Harrington, Laura Leahy, Anne Whalen McLindon, Melissa King, and Suzie Dods from Aquatic Park in San Francisco Bay. “We have 80 swimmers this year who will swim from 9 am on Saturday to 9 am on Sunday,” explained Suzie Dods who created
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Julie Tester finds herself in Grandvalira Ski Resort in Andorra to cheer on her 18-year-old son who won the Freeride Junior Freeskiing Championships. The swimmer from Truckee, California is a 10-time winner of the 250-yard Gar Woods Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe, California, but she has been so
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Courtesy of Michael Ventre, New York to London Swim. Sometimes, it is harder to get to the starting line than it is to the finish. Several people have had plans to attempt a transoceanic solo stage swim, but few have raised the requisite money to handle all of the logistics and operations required of such
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Courtesy of Brenton Williams, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa. South Africa’s top female open water swimmer Michelle Weber had a strong swim in her first race of 2017 when she won the women’s 5 km swim at Marina Martinique in blustery conditions. The 5 km swim was the first event of the Eastern Cape Open Water
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Courtesy of Michael Fishbach, Great Whale Conservancy, Sea of Cortez, Mexico. An Alligator Planet Production.
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Courtesy of Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, Argentina. 28 swimmers from 6 countries will participate in the 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda on Sunday including 3 local swimmers. Brazilian Catarina Ganzeli was added to the 43rd edition of the 57 km river marathon. The swimmer/writer will join the following
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Courtesy of Paul Curado, Buzzards Bay Coalition, Massachusetts. New Bedford Harbor is nicknamed The Whaling City because during the 19th century, the city was one of the most important whaling ports in the world, along with Nantucket, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut. Located along the south coast region of Massachusetts, the annual Buzzards Bay Swim
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Courtesy of Lexie Kelly with Olympic medalists Kaitlin Sandeno and Tony Azevedo for Hardcore Sport, California. Lexie Kelly did a photo shoot for Hardcore Sport together with Olympic medalists Kaitlin Sandeno and Tony Azevedo. While they started off in the pool, they eventually found their way to the open water in the Pacific Ocean. “It
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. English Channel swimmer Rachael Lee was awarded the Outsider Woman of the Year for 2016 by Outsider Magazine at the Sugar Club in Dublin last night. The Irish luminaries from the climbing, running, sailing, mountaineering, triathlon, cycling, paramotoring, wakeboarding, skiing, biking, walking, scouting, exploring, hiking, kite boarding communities had
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