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3K Down, 10K To Go, Jordan Wilimovsky In Rio
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American pool and open water swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky qualified third in the men’s 1500m freestyle in a lifetime best of 14:48.23 yesterday. Tonight, he dropped his time yet again with another blazing fast lifetime best time in the 1500m Olympic final at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center in Rio
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Wipeout At The Rio Olympics – Rough And Not Yet Ready
Courtesy of Professor Ricardo Ratto and Sid Cassidy from Copacabana Beach. Sid Cassidy, head referee for the men’s Olympic 10K Marathon Swim next Tuesday, reported on the rough water conditions on the marathon swim course. “Sadly, [there are] major issues on [the Olympic] race course. King Neptune’s overnight swell scuttled the start and feed barge
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Wayne Snellgrove Being Passionate And Giving Back
Wayne Snellgrove Being Passionate And Giving Back Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Wayne William Snellgrove has a knack to give back to those of his heritage and sport. Snellgrove whose birth name was Dwayne Ivan Smoke and whose nickname is the Greatest Native American Swimmer was born in Canada and was a Sixties Scoop
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Who Is Jon Hestoy And How Did He Get To Rio?
Courtesy of Anja, Faroe Islands. Jon Hestoy is in Rio de Janeiro, a member of the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee. He is responsible for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course and procedures along with Christiane Fanzeres of Brazil and Ayman Saad of Egypt. But how did a man from the Faroe Islands rise
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Atlantic City Pageant Ocean Swim Returns
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Atlantic City Pageant Ocean Swim is one of the world’s oldest open water swimming competitions. Ray Peden of the Middle Atlantic Open Water Committee explains about this year’s event. “The Pageant open water swim was originally cancelled early in the summer but, it has now resurfaced – just
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Swimming In The Olympics
Courtesy of Damien Kenny, The Water Filter Men, Ireland. Damien Kenny, director of The Water Filter Men, loves all things water-related. “Swimming is one of my favourite pastimes. With the Olympics in full swing, I thought it would be fun to create an infographic that informed the public about the famous Olympic sport. Swimming is
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Testing Out The Copacabana 10K Course
Courtesy of Pedro Rego Monteiro, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. While Jordan Wilimovsky of the USA was busy racing in the 1500m in the pool, the French team of Aurélie Muller and Marc-Antoine Daniel Frede Olivier were practicing on the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim course in Copacabana Beach at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Wilimovsky
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Abhejali Bernardova Swims Her 4th Oceans Seven Channel
Courtesy of Vasanti Niemz, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Endurance athlete Abhejali Bernardova of the Czech Republic was as fortunate as Polish endurance athlete Boguslaw Stanislaw Ogrodnik was unfortunate. The two athletes were waiting on the shores of Tappi Misaki in northern Japan for their windows to cross the Tsugaru Channel. While Ogrodnik’s chances were blown out
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