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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On Saturday, June 11th at 3:30 pm from Setúbal Bay in Portugal (GMT + 2), the women’s qualification race for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics will be held and livestreamed here. Watch the second qualification race that will be fast, strategic and rough for […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On Sunday, June 12th at 3:30 pm from Setúbal Bay in Portugal (GMT + 2), the men’s qualification race for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics will be held and livestreamed here. Watch the second qualification race that will be fast, strategic and rough for
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Chloë McCardel completed her three-way crossing of the English Channel in 2015 in 36 hours 12 minutes, fellow Australian channel swimmer Michael ‘Murph’ Renford said, “Chloë’s success undoubtedly makes her the greatest marathon, endurance and open water swimmer in Australian history.“ What makes for the greatest open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel is continuing where she left off last year when she swam a three-way English Channel crossing and three one-way crossings in one week. The 30-year-old McCardel has crossed the English Channel a total of 13 times and wants to break Des Renford’s Australian career
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Hungary has enjoyed worldwide success in the pool, ranging from its outstanding Olympic water polo teams (9 gold medals) to its Olympic pool swimming greats such as Krisztina Egerszegi, a 7-time Olympic medalist, and László Cseh, a 5-time Olympic medalist. Although Hungary is a landlocked country, it has an
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The World Swimming Association (WSA) was launched today. The WSA is an idea born in September 2015 to address the failure of the existing world bodies to fairly, openly, and honestly administer the sport of swimming. After 11 decades of failure to become athlete-centered, the coaches of the World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2016 United States Masters Swimming National Coaches Clinic will be held November 11th – 13h in San Mateo, California. The 3-day weekend clinic is specifically tailored for masters swimming coaches and will cover open water, team building, turns, dryland, and stroke technique. Ron Marcikic will talk about team
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Antarctica – a Bridge for Peace was today’s address by Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa to an international audience in Moscow, Russia. I am honoured that you have given me the opportunity to address you on the subject of Antarctica. Let me start off by confessing that I
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in the south part of California is postponed this year, the RCP Tiburon Mile will go on…the same weekend. While over 2,000 swimmers annually flock to La Jolla Cove for the original Rough Water Swim, nearly 900 swimmers annually flock to San
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