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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Marta Niedzwiecka works for Black Euphoria (contact mniedzwiecka@black-euphoria.com), a French film production company looking for senior sportsmen and women for a movie about people still very active over 80 years old in Greece. “We would like very much to film an elderly person who is still very active physically […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pool swimmers have lane lines. Open water swimmers face marine life. Pool swimmers have a coach on deck. Open water swimmers have a coach on a boat. Pool swimmers know exactly how far they will swim. Open water swimmers can only guess. Pool swimmers have people cheering for them
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Photo above of Ireland Long Distance Swimming Association President Billy Wallace, Maureen McCoy, Michelle Macy and Sheena Patterson (left to right) is courtesy of Paul McCambridge Photography and Video. Maureen McCoy gives a beautiful tribute to Ireland Long Distance Swimming Association Vice President Sheena Patterson here (Sheena Patterson, 1954 – 2014). Copyright © 2014 by
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Over the years in warm-water Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida, Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer has developed a large, passionate group of open water swimmers. He motivates his swimming group that includes everyone from Olympians and newbies by keeping track of the number of times they complete roundtrips in the lake.
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Abigail Long photo courtesy of Urban Swim, New York City. Urban Swim: Rose Pitonof Manhattan to Coney Island from TRAVLETE on Vimeo. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With one race to go on the 2014 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, Joanes Hedel hung on to a 1-point lead over Tomi Stefanovski, a 6-point lead over Xavier Desharnais, and a 10-point lead over Evgenji Pop Acev for the season’s title. Going into the final race, the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Silvie Rybárová of the Czech Republic [shown on left of FINA’s Sam Greetham] and Pilar Geijo of Argentina [shown on right] incredibly tied for first over the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit. The 2014 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix circuit included the 15 km Maratón Acuática
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. What goes around, comes around. Radio was the common link among sports fans in previous generation. The social media platform of the previous century tied many people together through a common experience. Largely ignored by the global open water swimming world, the radio platform is now being picked up
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It seems records are being set and broken with greater and greater frequency in the sport of marathon swimming. On the high end of the scale, it was only a few years ago that Great Britain’s Dr. Roger Allsopp set the record for the oldest swimmer to cross the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On September 4th, the King of Robben Island, Theodore Yach, and Avishug Turek became one of the handful of individuals in history who have successfully swum across the 22 km length of the Sea of Galilee. “The swim was a solidarity swim for Israel,” explains Yach who normally challenges
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