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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dutch athletes were firing on all cylinders at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, winning gold medals and singing through national anthem with great pride. The Dutch were a force to be reckoned with at the recent World Cup in Brazil. For such a small country, the Netherlands has […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. David Yudovin will be inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame on the Isle of Bute in Scotland at the 2014 Global Open Water Swimming Conference next month. The reason why Yudovin was voted to be inducted was because he has accomplished so many pioneering swims around the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cameron Keith, a 15-year-old vision-impaired swimmer from Australia, plans to attempt the 42 km Molokai Channel in September, but he wisely wanted to test himself first. Keith knew he had to pass a difficult test before taking on Molokai. But he had to be patient. His first scheduled swim
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships begin on August 21st on the Gold Coast in Australia, the image of South African athletes competing does not come immediately to mind. By Swimming South Africa is sending an 18-swimmer team to the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, each of whom must pay
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Australian Lachlan Hinds had something to smile about this month. He became the youngest person in history to successfully completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. At 16, he completed the English Channel on July 5th 2012 in 12 hours 32 minutes. At 17, he completed the Manhattan
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In Manhattan Beach, California courtesy of KTLA-TV.
Swimmer And Shark Just Cruising Along Read More »
First-person report below is courtesy of Lewis Pugh who is en route to completing Seven Swims In The Seven Seas For 1 Reason during the month of August: 10 km in the Mediterranean Sea in Monte Carlo, Monaco in 3 hours 33 minutes, 10 km in the Adriatic Sea in Zadar, Croatia in 3 hours
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Interview of Hungarian Mányoki Attila courtesy of tv2.hu about his swim across the Tsugaru Channel. Mányoki Attila bravúros teljesítményt vitt véghez, ugyanis telesítette az Ocean’s Seven japán állomását, átúszta a veszélyes Cugaru-szorost. Magyarként először, de a világon is mindössze a tizenharmadik úszó, aki sikerrel teljesítette ezt a szakaszt. A zalaegerszegi sportoló a Mokkában elmondta, hogy
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Milo McCourt gives a time check for Eleven Feet relay member David Burke in the North Channel.
The Eleven Feet relay’s Jacqueline Galway takes over in the sixth hour for Barry Patterson in the North Channel.
Swimming Synchronicity Read More »