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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mother Nature had her way in today’s Stage 2 during the 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim between the Kingston Rhinecliff Bridge and the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Rondi Davies reported on the conditions of the world’s longest competitive open water swim. “Today we had a strong headwind that created large swells […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While Dana Vollmer made the USA Olympic Swim Team in the 100m butterfly today, Stephanie Peacock is still in the hunt in the 400m freestyle, seeded fifth in the finals with a time of 4:08.23 in the 400m freestyle at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. But Haley Anderson just
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steve Walker did an ice mile in 2.7°C (37°F) 20 years ago in 1996. With an attempt at the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland coming up in August, Walker attempted a swim across the Strait of Juan de Fuca between America and neighboring Canada. But with the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Catherine Vogt is married to an American military hero, has a beautiful young daughter, has coached world champions since 2005, and has helped the University of Southern California climb to the top ranks of American universities in the pool swimming world. Her talents and passion has been long recognized
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Information courtesy of Masters Swimming Association of British Columbia. Photo courtesy of Emily Van Gulik. The roll call of swimmers who have crossed the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the mainland coast of British Columbia is not long: * Ernst Yacub in 11 hours 13 minutes in 1967 * Mike Powley in 9
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, we were given an assignment: find a manicurist for the USA women’s national swim team. It was much easier said than done 15 years ago when a vast majority of Japanese women did not paint their fingernails and manicurists were
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Results courtesy of Rondi Davies, New York Open Water. The world’s longest competitive open water swimming competition began today. Race directors David Barra and Rondi Davies, in collaboration New York Open Water, provided the following results from Day One of the 6th annual 7-day, 7-stage 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim. 17 swimmers traversed 18.3 miles
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Courtesy of Samsung Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı (Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim), Turkey.
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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 reigning world 10 km champion who blew away
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