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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The United States Olympic Committee will send over 500 representative athletes to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games next summer in Brazil.* Among all those choices, the U.S.O.C. choose standout open water swimmer Haley Andersen to kick-off its campaign of Team USA gear. For more information, visit here. * In […]
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Courtesy of Jacqueline Mcclelland in Ireland. Emerald Isle, is said to have 40 shades of green. From the perspective of open water swimmers who are often gazing off across the horizon or up towards the skies, it may be said that the Emerald Isle also has 40 shades of blue. Copyright © 2015 by World
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Reef and Run in Santa Barbara’s East Beach is kicking off its 7th season on June 4th. Athletes can choose from three ocean swim distances in the weekly ocean swim series: 500 yards, 1 km and 1 mile with onshore starts and finishes. After the event, there is a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alessandro Pilati and his colleagues and fellow swim camp and event coordinators Nicola Paparini, Norma Bellezza, and Fausto Antico have built quite an open water offering at NAL (Nuoto In Acque Libere). Pilati has long envisioned and offered all kinds of information, events, camps, trips and excursions throughout Italy.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pádraig Mallon reported that 8 swimmers successfully passed their 2-hour qualification swim for a North Channel relay attempt. “With an incoming tide, south southeasterly winds of approximately 20 knots, a sunny blue sky the beautiful backdrop of Carlingford Co. Louth met eight swimmers who set out at a fast
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of his sayings is “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Alan Bircher lived up to that motto during his open water swimming career, even though he arguably also possessed a lot of world-class talent. As a 10-time British open water champion and FINA World Cup
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steven Spielberg is on top of his profession and is, without a doubt, one of the most popular, successful and influential directors in film history. Creating, writing, directing and producing blockbuster after blockbuster, his career has spanned more than four decades as he has generated over US$8.5 billion in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Graham Schmelzer took out time from his busy age group water polo season and high school swim season and homework obligations to win Saturday’s 2-mile Alcatraz Classic for the Fastest in San Francisco Bay. Overall times inclusive of both neoprene and bioprene swimmers: 1 Graham Schmelzer (wetsuit) 32:54.7 2
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 25-year-old Calum Hudson, 23-year-old Jack Hudson, and 28-year-old Robbie Hudson are training for their upcoming Swim the Eden along the River Eden. They are live tracking the swim with a GPS so that people can follow their planned 3-man 90-mile 9-day stage swim along the length of the River
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Ivan Puskovitch and Casmera Wick won Race #1 In Schuykill, Pennsylvania
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