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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 24th Marathon de la relève Rio Tinto is part of the Coupe Espoir Canada Carrossier ProColor, a 10 km race for 14 to 26 year olds. The race ends in the same location as the 62nd Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean in Roberval, Quebec, Canada. Over the decades, […]
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Tracking Swimmers Across Your Screen Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the next 36 hours, open water swimmers around the world will be followed virtually by their families, friends and fans. Alex Meyer swimming across Lac St-Jean in the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean, Kellie Latimer and Charlotte Brynn in the 25
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the eyes of the swimming world at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games will be on athletes like Michael Phelps, the attention of the swimming community is smaller, less renowned swimming nations will be on their own athletic representatives in Rio de Janeiro beginning on August 5th. 20-year-old Geoffrey
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The English Channel is often referred to as the Mount Everest of open water swimming. But there are more difficult channel swims than the English Channel. The Molokai Channel is one of those mightily difficult channels. While the water in the English Channel is much colder, athletes swimming between
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. People ask what are the best vantage points to watch the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on Copacabana Beach, which is one of the few sports in the Olympics that will have a combination of paid seating and free standing-room only sections. But Copacabana Beach is a relatively flat, but
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Seat in a window seat while flying into the LAX International Airport, the Long Beach Airport (LGB) or the John Wayne Airport (SNA) and you will see innumerable swimming pools of all shapes and sizes on a clear day. Outdoor swimming pools dot not only the suburbs of Southern
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like Canadian teammate Stéphanie Horner, Philippe Guertin took a major step by winning 10 km race at the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup at Lac St. Jean (Traversee international du Lac St-Jean). And like Horner in the women’s race, Guertin, another Quebec native, won the men’s race in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. If there was a race on the FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup circuit for Stéphanie Horner to win, Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean is it. And if this is a good time to start winning 10 km races, now is the time as Horner is prepping for the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Citius – Altius – Fortius (Latin). Faster – Higher – Stronger (English) is the Olympic motto first stated by a Dominican priest Henri Didon at a school sports event in 1881 and adopted by the International Olympic Committee. With the increasingly global impact of money and fame on athletes,
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Tower 26‘s Be Race Ready 30-minute podcast episode #13 on triathlon swimming is posted online for listening. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses the essentials of open water swimming (Part 3), and the importance of specificity in the pool and open water. “We are now listened to in 100
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