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Ron Jacks, 3-time Olympian and coach of 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Richard Weinberger (shown on left), and Swimming Canada CEO Pierre Lafontaine, opened up the 2012 FINA World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships today with a 3-hour coaching seminar. The races begin tomorrow and extend through August 19th in Welland, Canada. The newest international competition […]
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Ridgeline Entertainment, producers of The Longest Swim by Ben Lecomte from Japan to California will test its development of SmackDab today at 11 am Los Angeles time. SmackDab is the new social viewing platform for Facebook which Lecomte and Ridgeline Entertainment will use to interact with their online followers around the globe while they are
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After his bronze-medal performance in the 1500m and gold-medal move in the Olympic 10km marathon swim in London, Ous Mellouli was given honor of leading Tunisia and carrying his country’s flag at the Closing Ceremonies. “We did not lead our teammates into the stadium, but instead all the flag bearers walked in together in the
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From Italy to Thailand and several locations in the UK, Coningham-Rolls Swimming Holidays offers a variety of luxury swimming tours. And the tours are expanding northwards towards the Arctic Circle. This September, a 6-day swimming tour of the stunning Lofoten Islands in Norway begins. The surrounding sea is optimal for open water swimming with a
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The Longest Swim-Sizzle Reel from Ridgeline on Vimeo. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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The race is on. In 2009 a team comprising of severely wounded British Servicemen and women from both Afghanistan, Iraq and other theatres of unpleasantness formed a team called Battle Back. They swum a superb English Channel crossing and were awarded the Jersey Long Distance Swimming Club trophy for ‘against all odds’ as a result.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Fast, very fast, blazing fast. The bar has now been set for the 2016 Rio Olympic quadrennial. Ous Mellouli and Thomas Lurz, the gold and silver medalists in the Olympic marathon swim, swam slightly faster than 1:06 per 100 meters for nearly 1 hour 50 minutes without walls or
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After the Olympic marathon swim, gold medalist Ous Mellouli famously described the swim as “hell…there is no other way to describe it. The last 100 meters, as I lifted my head to look at the finish line, my shoulder was so heavy, my legs were tight, my lungs were burning, my whole system was in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Some gorgeous photos of the Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine are shown in the links below: Metro – of the female marathon swimmers ABC – check out the taping around the transponder Daily Mail – the course and spectators flickr – of the race officials Copyright © 2012
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Welcome was a popular French movie released in 2009 that was directed and written by Philippe Lioret starring Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi and Audrey Dana. The film depicts a young Kurdish refugee in who envisions and then trains to swim across the English Channel. Bilal (Firat Ayverdi) traveled across Europe in an attempt to meet
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