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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guillermo Bértola (Argentina), Sarah Bosslet (Germany), Alice Franco (Italy), and Chip Peterson (U.S.A.) talk about the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) event on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nearly 4,000 participants took part in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro today. There were so many human interest stories to be told and sights to behold. The photo above shows the start of the women’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nearly 4,000 participants took part in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro today. There were so many human interest stories to be told and sights to behold. The photo above shows the advertisements featuring Chad Ho,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nearly 4,000 participants took part in the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro today. There were so many families who took part: mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins and grandparents. Team [Valerio] Cleri
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After watching Guillermo Bertola, Damián Blaum, Thomas Lurz and Chip Peterson race against local favorite Allan do Carmo in the 4 km ocean race at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) today, Professor Ricardo Ratto talked a little bit about the 2007 Pan
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The extravaganza on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will have all kinds of races and runs over the weekend, but all eyes and the television cameras will be on the pro relay race on Sunday morning where the top Brazilian team (with FINA’s World Open Water Swimmers
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers simply head off to the oceans by car, train, bus or bike. They get out and walk across the sand and enjoy their sport. Swimsuit, goggles and swim cap is all they need. It is so simple, so refreshing, so natural. But it is not that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dan Kutler has used his creative and writing skills to help promote some of the world’s biggest brands including Google, Procter & Gamble, Walmart, Dell, American Express, Supercell mobile games (Clash of Clans, Boom Beach and Hay Day), Macy’s, Cisco, Visa, Dockers, Levi’s, Adidas, University of Phoenix, Hewlett-Packard, and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Silicon Valley has a great way to make profound things simple. The Google search engine, the iPhone, and the Facebook interface are examples that come immediately to mind. So it does not surprise us that Pedro Ordenes and his colleagues at Water World Swim in San Francisco, California have
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Decades ago, we used to swim from Makapuʻu Beach at the eastern end of Oʻahu in Hawaii, around Mānana Island, an uninhabited islet located 1.2 km) off Kaupō Beach and back to shore. On most weekends, it was a difficult yet fantastically beautiful swim where every stroke was a