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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
A live global audience watched Germany’s Rob Muffels win the inaugural World Junior Open Water Swimming Championship boy’s 7.5km in Welland, Ontario, Canada. Nearly 500 people from 36 countries watched the live streaming service online here. The number of spectators are expected to increase over the 3-day championships hosted by Swimming Canada. The boy’s results: […]
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When Ben Lecomte sets off from a stretch of beach near Tokyo towards San Francisco as his finish goal 5500 miles away, he and producer Doug Stanley will be creating open water swimming history – and demonstrating how dramatic, real-time storytelling of a solo swimmer can entertain the world. Stanley of Ridgeline Entertainment is setting
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Greenwich – Stamford Swim Across America raised over $420,000 at this year’s event. With only 200 swimmers, led by Peter Carlson (US$18,900), Peter Holmquist (US$17,000) and Bobby Pruett (US$15,000), raised an inspirational amount for the June 30th charity event on behalf of the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy. Teams also helped raised a good amount
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A live global audience watched South Africa’s Michelle Weber win the inaugural World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships girl’s 5 km in Welland, Ontario, Canada over two young Germans Lena-Sophie Bermel and Patricia-Lucia Wartenberg. Nearly 500 people from 36 countries watched the live streaming service online here. The number of spectators are expected to increase
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On her fourth attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad is pulling out the stops. On her support team, there are four jellyfish imaging specialists from the world-renowned Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. “We have a variety of visible and invisible photographic imaging equipment that can detect jellyfish in the water,” explained
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South Africa’s Michelle Weber won the 5km World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in convincing fashion on the first day of the inaugural event in Welland, Ontario, Canada yesterday over two young Germans Lena-Sophie Bermel and Patricia-Lucia Wartenberg. The final results of the championships: 1 Michelle WEBER RSA 1:00:05.6 2 Lena-Sophie BERMEL Ger 1:00:08.0 3
The 4th Annual Swim 4 Freedom 2012 was held in Lake Geneva , Wisconsin. All proceeds will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to support America’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps special Operations personnel and their families by providing full college educations to surviving children of special operations personnel killed in combat
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Diana Nyad is planning her fourth attempt of the 103 miles between Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida today. The start time was moved up 16 hours due to the tranquil conditions that are forecasted over the next 72 hours. Nyad hopes to complete the estimated 60+ hour journey in the Florida Straits by Tuesday,
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Doug Stanley of Ridgeline Entertainment will create and produce a 24/7 view of Ben Lecomte’s solo stage swim from Tokyo to San Francisco utilizing the latest in tools, equipment and online social media. But at the start and end of the day, good entertainment is about excellent storytelling. There are good reasons why Diana Nyad
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Many swimmers listen to music on their iPod (in their H2O Audio cases), follow other swimmers on their iPhone, read news and search swims in foreign lands on their iPad, and work on their MacBook Air. Information overflow is enabled by their iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air – or their equivalents in the smartphone,