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Photo courtesy of Ballymore Group. Article courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. No lanes, no lines. Just blue sky above and nothing but water below. Its sounds just like the open water. But it is instead the all-glass pool-bridge 10 stories above street level between two apartment buildings in London’s Embassy Gardens. Copyright © 2015 […]
Images courtesy of Universal Sports in Kazan, Russia. Olympic champion Ryan Lochte can still do his thing in the open water, but his old body surfing technique in the pool was ruled illegal by FINA. During his 200m individual medley gold medal performance at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Lochte went on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Emma France swam from Jersey to France in 8 hours 18 minutes. She called it swimming through ‘jellyfish soup‘. “Those jellies are nasty! Glad it’s done. I have wonderful crew of Paul James, Cliff Golding, Wendy Trehiou and Matthew Clarke at the wheel.” Copyright © 2015 by World Open
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 19-year-old Shubhams Vanmali from India is knocking off the Oceans Seven channels at a young age. With the English Channel (12 hours 42 minutes, see below), Strait of Gibraltar (3 hours 16 minutes), and the Catalina Channel (10 hours 42 minutes) completed, he is now on his way with
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINIS‘s new multi-use Axis Buoy truly lives up to its name and can be used in all kinds of ways in the water, especially if one is an open water swimmer or triathlete. Its unique shape enables the FINIS Axis Buoy to be used in multiple ways: 1. As
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Courtesy of Open Water Swimming Magazine, Huntington Beach, California.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On September 6th, the Night Train Swimmers are on a mission for a beginner swimmer This time in the process of helping raise US$100,000 to help Arthur Renowitzky walk again after being paralyzed by a gun shot wound to his spine, they will attempt to set the distance record
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Courtesy of Ben Barham, Lake Geneva Swimming Association, Switzerland. While many thousands of people throughout history have walked, run, jogged, hiked, biked and journeyed for 24 hours straight on land, there has only been a few more than 100 people – ever – who have swum for more than 24 hours non-stop in an open
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Courtesy of Ben Barham, Lake Geneva Swimming Association, Switzerland. While many thousands of people throughout history have walked, run, jogged, hiked, biked and journeyed for 24 hours straight on land, there has only been a few more than 100 people – ever – who have completed a non-stop swim in an open body of water
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Courtesy of Nick Wooler, Monterey Bay, California. Frank Reynolds of Tustin, California left a legacy in business, philanthropy and aquatics that is hard to match. His children and his grandchildren have long been successful on the national level in pool swimming, water polo and open water swimming. Two of his grandchildren Frank Reynolds Jr. and
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