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Courtesy of Dr. Marilyn Korzekwa. Dr. Marilyn Korzekwa navigated 32 km from Plymouth to Provincetown across Cape Cod Bay in Massachusetts yesterday. Ther P2P Charity Swim took 13 hours 6 minutes and was highlighted by the 5-foot surf that she had surf into the finish. Her account is posted here. The doctor from Hamilton, Canada […]
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Courtesy of NBC Olympics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are all kinds of subtle moves, surges, positioning, feeding, drafting, officiating decisions due to impeding and physicality that spectators can see during the upcoming Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro next week. What is there to watch and understand for the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games…but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture gold. One of those athletes is the powerful and savvy Dutch swimmer Ferry Weertman
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Images courtesy of NHK-TV. Jay Thomas is everywhere. Not only does the veteran pilot fly all over the world, he has also flown 747’s full of tourists to Rio de Janeiro. Thomas has also spent countless time volunteering to officiate, organize and plan for open water swims for decades. But he first got his start
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Courtesy of Patty Hermann, United States Lifesaving Association National Lifeguard Championships. The always competitive United States Lifesaving Association National Lifeguard Championships began today in Hermosa Beach, California. The intensely passionate corp of male and female lifeguards create an outstanding ambiance when they get together and compete against one another as they showcase their myriad skills
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GPS tracker courtesy of Evan Morrison, Marathon Swimmers Federation. Melissa Yasmin Berkay writes frequently about open water swimming and elite open water swimmers, from Olympians to channel swimmers, for Swimming World Magazine. It will be interesting to see how she writes about her own 12 hour 37 minute butterfly crossing of the Catalina Channel today.
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Tower 26‘s Be Race Ready 41-minute podcast episode #14 on tips triathletes can learn from the great swimmers competing at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In the latest podcast, Coach Gerry Rodrigues and Jim Lubinski discuss swimmers in Rio. They describe how and what triathletes of every
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