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Nuala Moore Awarded Masters Outsider Of The Year

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= Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Irish ice swimmer ice swimmer Nuala Moore was awarded the Masters Award Outsider Adventurer of the Year for 2016 by Outsider Magazine at the Sugar Club in Dublin last night. Luminaries of the climbing, running, sailing, mountaineering, triathlon, cycling, paramotoring, wakeboarding, skiing, biking, walking, scouting, exploring, hiking, kite […]

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Live Webcast Of La Patagones Viedma

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Courtesy of La Patagones Viedma, Viedma, Argentina. To watch live streaming of La Patagones Viedma on February 4th, the first event on the FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup series can be seen here. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association

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North Lake Tahoe Fun & Mid-Winter Challenge

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Courtesy of Kimberly Moore, Marketing Director Tahoe Restaurant Collection, Lake Tahoe, California. The annual 250-yard Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe, part of the North Lake Tahoe SnowFest, will take place on March 4th this year. “This March we are celebrating the 29th Annual Polar Bear Swim in Lake Tahoe, California,” explains Kimberly Moore who

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Double Dipping On FINA Pro Circuits

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Professional marathon swimmers from around the world have converged in Argentina this week for the first races of the 2017 FINA/HOSA 10 km Marathon Swimming World Cup series and the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix series. While the La Patagones Viedma showcases the 2016 Olympics silver (Rachele Bruni,

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Yasunari Hirai Has Insured Himself To Commit 100%

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yasunari Hirai is the only open water swimmer with his own current line of water (YASU WATER or ヤスウォーター in Japanese, shown on left). The two-time Olympic swimmer finished within 5 seconds of the gold medalist in the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Copacabana Beach at the

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Life In The Water Brings Smiles Out

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Across all continents from Oceania to Europe, Africa to Asia, the Americas to Antarctica, we see people smiling all the time in the open water. Some do it constantly whether in training or after a race, like Yasunari Hirai of Japan and Lexie Kelly of California [see below]. They

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Swimming In The Snow In Wöhrsee

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Courtesy of HD Production, Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. Video showcases many stars from the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Wöhrsee, Burghausen including Christof Wandratsch (Germany), Henri Kaarma (Estonia), Olive Conroy (Ireland), Elina Makïnen (Finland). Anna DeLozier (USA), and Tobias Wybierek (Germany).

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Rachel Lee, Sabrina Wiedmer, Nuala Moore Up For Awards

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Three female swimmers are up for consideration as the most mind-boggling adventurers among a slew of accomplished athletes in the Irish outdoor and adventure scene in 2016: Rachel Lee [shown swimming the English Channel on left], channel swimmer Sabrina Wiedmer, and ice swimmer Nuala Moore. The awards ceremony is

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Ger Kennedy’s Antarctica 2020 Swim

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Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Southern Ocean, Antarctica. UN Environment Patron of the Oceans Lewis Pugh is raising awareness about the need to protect Antarctica‘s seas through a series of swims under extreme conditions. He wishes to add three marine protected areas to Antarctica by 2020 in the #Antarctica2020 campaign. Ger Kennedy is also joining in

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