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Alan Neves produced a wonderful piece on Gordon Gridley‘s 11 hour 30 minute crossing of the English Channel. Give that man his chicken nuggets…he deserves them. Copyright © 2012 by Open Water Source
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Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps do it. Carly Geehr, a former beach lifeguard and national-level swimmer at Stanford, explains, “Nearly 100% of elite competitive swimmers pee in the pool. Regularly. Some deny it, some proudly embrace it, but everyone does.” Urinating in competition pools has become big news in the media in light of Lochte
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Evgeny Drattsev won the 6th Traversée Internationale du Lac Mégantic. The 10km professional marathon swim was held in beautiful Lac Mégantic in Québec, Canada. 2008 Olympian Drattsev turned the tables on Christian Reichert who won the traditional 1km sprint race the night before in the 23°C (73°F) water. In contrast to other races on the
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Christine Jennings won the 6th Traversée Internationale du Lac Mégantic today. The 10km professional marathon swim was held in beautiful Lac Mégantic in Québec, Canada. The 3-time World Cup champion Jennings turned the tables on Ana Marcela Cunha who won the traditional 1km sprint race the night before in the 23°C (73°F) water. In contrast
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Ned Denison’s concept of the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims (or Triple Break) has a new member: Nick Adams. Adams completed a series of swims from former isolated prison islands where convicts have given way to open water swimmers. Denison’s list of the swimmers who have currently completed the Triple Crown of Prison Island
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Ned Denison, one of the global leaders in the marathon swimming world, will be deservedly honoured by the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame at its annual induction ceremonies on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California on September 22nd. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be held together with the
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The major sponsor of British Swimming has been British Gas. British Gas has been very generous to the open water swimming community in particular. From being the title sponsor of the British Gas Great Swims to supporting the national open water swimming team travel budget, the benefits of British Gas support have reached everyone from
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Larry Herlth, known as Lighthouse Larry, is an American artist and open water swimmer from Islamorada, Florida who completed an 8-mile swim from Islamorada around the Alligator Lighthouse and back in 5 hours, 11 minutes. He attempted the swim as a crusade to raise awareness about Alligator Lighthouse and the five other historic but deteriorating
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In some ocean races in South Africa, its rules that governed wetsuit usage dictated that wetsuit swimmers receive a 1-minute time penalty for every 1 km swam. Other open water swims where wetsuit swimmers and non-wetsuit swimmers compete in the same division have different time differentials (e.g., 60-90 seconds per 1.6 km swam). But there
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How Did Marathon Swimming Get Into The Olympics? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How did open water swimming get into the Olympic Games? It all started with a simple lunch gazing out over the horizon across the Indian Ocean. In a scene that can be immortalized by a Hollywood movie, three passionate open water
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