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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This could be the last turn buoy of the Olympic final or a national championship or a local ocean or lake race. There is a leader and three swimmers following? You really want to win. What would you do if you were Swimmer A (leader)? What would you do […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 67-year-old Ken Noble felt he was getting a bit old for running marathons and ultra-marathons as he started to pick up injuries. As an alternative, he started swimming. “I soon got into open water racing,” the South African from Port Elizabeth recalls. He was competitive and got his 37-year-old
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After a number of pleas from a number of leading individuals and publications to cancel, postpone or move the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim from Copacabana Beach, then the Brazilian organizers were recipients of a number of pleas from scientists and health experts to cancel, postpone or move the entire
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Courtesy of Lucky Meisenheimer, M.D., Lake Cane, Florida. Patrick “Kono Boy” is an American open water swimmer from Florida who is a member of the Lucky’s Lake Swim 1000K Club. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine living over 1,000 years ago where only a few individuals relatively speaking had the opportunity to swim. Moats around castles the world seem like the closest places to practice one’s skills Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jordan Wilimovsky of Malibu, California was the first swimmer to qualify for the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim [shown above]. But the second qualification race will be tough for various reasons: 15 remaining spots will be available for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim final in Copacabana Beach. The second
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The top qualifier for the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim is Aurélie Muller of France. She has an English-language tattoo imprinted on her foot, “chase your dreams“. That she has been chasing her dream for three Olympic quadrennials. She initially qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic 10 km marathon swim,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Contemporary channel swimmers Becky Jackman, Kim Garbarino, Ricky Sweeney, Lochie Hinds, and Cindy Walsh will compete in the 2016 Boston Light Swim in Massachusetts. Peter McNally was the first swimmer to complete the original 10-mile (16.2 km) course in 1897 where according to the historians of the Boston Light
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Photo courtesy of Extreme North Dakota Racing, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Alison Kelly, race director of Extreme North Dakota Racing, is looking for volunteers to paddle the Red River of the North as company, safety, and support for marathon swimmers who are traveling from around the world for the longest competitive race in America. Each
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Do Leme ao Pontal (From Leme to Pontal) is a well-known Brazilian song by Tim Maia that inspired Olympian Luiz Lima to swim an unprecedented 35 km from Leme beach to Pontal, two famous points in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. His Lima’s first successful swim in 2008, there
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