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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Phil White, Lake Memphremagog, California. 50-year-olds and 60-somethings dominated the long courses of the Kingdom Swim this year, winning the 25.7 km Border Buster and the 10 Mile U.S. Masters Swimming National Open Water Championships. The winners received some of the most unique awards in the open water swimming world. Charlotte Brynn, 50-year-old […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kilometer after kilometer, day after day, year after year, Olympic 10K Marathon Swim bronze medalist Richard Weinberger has been training by himself. Alone and lonely, he has trudged innumerable solitary miles in pools and lakes in and around Vancouver, Canada. Weinberger has made a steady progress to the top
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Men can be jerks. Especially in the heat of a competition, around a turn buoy or immediately after an onshore start where everyone is scrambling for space. Men often swim over, hit, grab, pull and otherwise created improper and illegal advantages by impeding others – especially women – in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Winston Crooke is confident…for good reason. The triathlete and race organizer offers all the benefits and experience of a channel swim without the cold, distance, tidal flow, ocean swells or expenses of the more traditional channel crossings between England and France or Spain and Morocco or Oahu and Molokai.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. English Channel aspirant Ingemar Patiño Macarine, his coach Edwin dela Cruz and the rest of Ingemar’s support team have all traveled a long way from their native Philippines to England. The team – and many more fans in the Philippines – are following Ingemar and hoping that he becomes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Helen Beveridge has every reason to not be able to complete a 37 km crossing of Loch Ness in Scotland. The mother of three children (ages 12, 14 and 15) works as an environmental manager for a construction company. Both responsibilities could give the 48-year-old pause before training for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Unlike other American media who focus primarily on the reportedly deadly and dangerous waters in Copacabana Beach at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Melissa Block of National Public Radio featured American Haley Anderson in her recent article, talking about her sacrifice, skills and strategy. Block also gets into the
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