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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the lead-up to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the FINA Sports Medicine Committee, the designated FINA Safety Officer, and FINA’s Technical Open Water Swimming Committee members may have to make some tough recommendations to FINA’s decision-maker Cornel Marculescu. Behind the scenes and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was a classic mano-a-mano battle against the only two swimmers left: 23-year-old Paige Christie [shown above] and 51-year-old Cheryl Reinke. Christie got the upper hand over her veteran rival in Stage 5 of the 7-stage 120-mile (193 km) 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, finishing in 8:24:38 versus Reinke’s
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Jorge Crivilles Swims For Asociación Linforma Mieloma y Leucemia Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jorge Crivilles from Spain is on his way to the Oceans Seven, always swimming in support of Spanish cancer patients and raising money for Asociación Linforma Mieloma y Leucemia (AEAL). He completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming last
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chris Lechner is a 56-year-old American hand surgeon and adventurer from Asheville, North Carolina. He paddled solo 277 miles (446 km) in the French Broad River in North Carolina and attempted a non-escorted 80-mile (128.7 km) open water swim across Lake Michigan with a paddleboard in tow. He was
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several well-known American Olympic champions (Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky) appear in a Colle+McVoy commercial for USA Swimming. The voiceover is that of another 3-time Olympic gold medalist, Rowdy Gaines. Quite accurately, the Ad of the Week as selected by AdWeek, ends in a simply
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the Stage 4, Cheryl Reinke set a new course record in 4 seconds with a 4 hour 10 minute victory. Reinke [shown above] extended her overall lead to 23 minutes over Paige Christie with an impressive record-setting 15.2-mile swim between the Newburgh Beacon Bridge and the Bear Mountain
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Thomas Gaither, a researcher at the University of California San Francisco Department of Urology, and Dr. Benjamin Breyer, a professor in the Department of Urology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Chief of Urology at the University of California, San Francisco, are conducting research in men and women’s sexual
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Also on the same day that Sabrina Wiedmer crossed the Dál Riata Channel on June 29th, an Irish team of Michelle Booker, Donagha McDonagh, Rose Long, Barry O’Connor, Michelle White and Noel Grimes was also successful. The team left from Donaghadee, Co. Down as
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. June 29th was a very successful day on the North Channel. “Two boats crossed two different parts of the North Channel and both were successful,” recalls Pádraig Mallon of Infinity Channel Swimming and Piloting Services. Sabrina Wiedmer of Switzerland became the first female to successfully swim solo across the
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