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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Christian Reichert won the 2015 FINA/HOSA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup for the first time in his career. It was a satisfying victory for the 30-year-old from SC Wiesbaden. But he has some big shoes to fill next year. The now-retired Thomas Lurz has represented Germany very well in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yogi Berra, who recently passed away at the age of 90, was arguably one of the greatest American baseball players in history, especially for his position as a catcher. He was certainly one of the most engaging and entertaining and quotable. Throughout his career as a player, manager and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We remember the first time that we saw American football star Marcellus Wiley swim in a pool. He thrashed and he splashed. He certainly moved, but not necessarily in the forward motion. Throughout his career as one of the best football players in America, he had always started each
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The Do-Over is the autobiography of Karlyn Pipes who has been setting swimming records for the last 3 decades without peer.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Swim Across America’s Long Island Sound Swim started in Larchmont, New York in 1992. The 4-mile swim that starts at the Larchmont Yacht Club is dedicated to the memory of Kathy Webers who battled cancer for over a year. In its first year, 35 swimmers raised US$15,000. Over
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Three-time Olympic gold medalist Brooke Bennett will conduct a pre-race swimming clinic on December 12th. The clinic will be in advance of the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim, a 5 km event held on January 17th 2016. Bennett won her 3 Olympic gold medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle
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Courtesy of Janet Manning, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. As the Southern Hemisphere heats up, the Northern Hemisphere cools down and Phil White and crew start to gear up. “Online registration is now open for the Second Annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival on March 5th and 6th 2016. Our winter swim festival is the ultimate fist in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Comcast SportsNet California will broadcast the 15th annual RCP Tiburon Mile beginning tonight. “Watch the elite swimmers who joined us from around the world like, Keri-Anne Payne and David Carry from Great Britain, Michael Sheil from Australia, Evgeny Bezruchenko from Russia, Christine Jennings and Becca Mann from the USA,
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Courtesy of Volvo LifePaint and WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine swimmers could put on a eco-friendly, biodegradable spray that would not attract jellyfish or marine life (with the exception of friendly creatures like dolphins, turtles and whales) while lighting their bodies up during night swims in open bodies of water? How useful and fun that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine 17 years from now. 5 Olympic quadrennials in the future. How will the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim be conducted? We can only imagine the possibilities… * each athlete will be outfitted with a transponder that transmits in real time the athlete’s heart rate and other biometrics from the
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