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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. According to the National Weather Service, Hurricane Madeline (shown on left above) and Hurricane Lester (shown on right above) are expected to come close to Hawaii this week. Fortunately, both are forecast to weaken before approaching the islands. Local veterans predict cautiously, “It looks like Madeline and Lester might […]
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Courtesy of Gabriela Cipriano, San Francisco Bay, California. Exhilarating. Terrifying. Nerve-Racking. These are some words people use to describe the open water swim between Alcatraz Island and San Francisco Bay. And what do they say about the water? Chilling, choppy, and forceful. Seemingly, Gary Emich has been through it all. It was only his 72nd
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Tower 26‘s Be Race Ready 40-minute podcast episode #15 on triathlon swimming has been posted by Coach Gerry Rodrigues. “Jim Lubinski and I discuss more 2016 Rio Olympic swimming and host Coach Michael Collins of the Irvine Novas. We discuss the kick that some athletes use, such
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Courtesy of Rick Madge, Swimming World Magazine. Rick Madge produces a number of analyses from the 2016 Rio Olympics for Swimming World Magazine. It is interesting to see how the open water swimming finalists tend to be a little bit older than their pool swimming colleagues. The average age of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
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Stephen Junk heading toward the coast of Hokkaido shown below. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Junk took a while, but he finally crossed the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan off his Oceans Seven list. “Last year, I went to Japan to attempt the Tsugaru Channel swim. But, unfortunately, I got very bad food
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nora Toledano Cadena of Mexico City and Liz Fry of Connecticut completed a tandem swim across the Catalina Channel on August 23th. Their time was 12 hours 37 minutes as Fry achieved a rare Reverse Triple Crown and became one of only four Double Triplers in history. Toledano completed
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After his 41 hour 44 minute two-way attempt of the English Channel, 50-year-old Mickey Helps remains in a hospital high dependency unit. His inspirational effort as part of The 3 Swims of Europe (Strait of Gibraltar + English Channel + Dardanelles) is being touted around the global community. After
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When Water Polo And Open Water Swimming Mix Courtesy of KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Even since Tom Burgess competed in both water polo and open water swimming, the two sports have been linked together with interesting personalities. Before Burgess became the second man to swim the English Channel in 22 hours 35 minutes in
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