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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers occasionally talk about sharks and jellyfish, cold water and currents. But those with long hair know a more frequent, but understated, problem occurs with swimming long distances: tangled hair that becomes matted under a swim cap and can become damaged by pool chemicals over time. “As […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With so much at stake among the athletes at the quadrennial Olympics, biennial FINA World Championships and annual national open water swimming championship events around the world, we strongly believe a formal officiating selection and review process should be instituted by FINA and each national governing body in order
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Courtesy of END-WET, Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test, North Dakota. The third edition of the 36-mile (57.9 km) Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test (END-WET) will be held on June 18th down the Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Oslo, Minnesota. Far away from Manhattan Island on the East Coast and Aquatic
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When one person can tie so many luminaries and organizations across the globe together, they must be doing something right and innovative. That is what Dr. Stathis Avramidis has done with his fairy tale book called A Chance for Children. The book is printed in Greek and English with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pauline Brotton (née De Jongh) lives and works in northeast England, but her dreams of open water swimming go beyond the British shorelines. “I joined the North East Open Water Swimmers“, says the Dutch-born swimmer. “We are lucky to have the North Sea, a clean river, and a small
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic champion and world record holder Rebecca Soni loves the beach…and the open water. She has switched from her trademark breaststroke to distance swimming: 14.4 km or 9 miles to be exact. Next week, she will compete with hundreds of others at the Los Cabos Open Water Challenge in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced the new dates for ISHOF’s 52nd Annual Honors Weekend: October 28th-30th in Santa Clara, California. “We believe that it will provide a great opportunity to promote swimming and the new Santa Clara Community and Recreation Center, which will be our new
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 8th annual Charles River One-mile Swim will attract hundreds of people and plenty of local press about the swim that encourages and celebrates the return of public river swimming [see here]. Race Director Kate Radville explains, “The Charles River Swimming Club was founded in 2005 with the dual
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Stathis Avramidis (Δρ Στάθης Αβραμίδης) is a prolific author and advocate in the field of water safety from Greece. He has popularized aquatics and water safety since 1988 as athlete, academic, water safety and media professional. He launched a new fairy tale book that forms the material for
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Courtesy of Pool Open Water by World Open Water Swimming Association. If there was ever a high school pool built for Pool Open Water swimming practice and competitions, it is the Clovis High School East pool, located near Fresno between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The L-shaped pool is 50 meters long in one direction
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