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Yasunari Hirai is Japan’s entrant in today’s Olympic marathon swim at the Serpentine. The young man has been swimming throughout Japan, in America, in Australia and in the professional marathon swimming circuit to gain expertise and experience in open water swimming. He should be in the mix for the first half in what is expected […]
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As one of the Olympic marathon swimming gold medal favorites, Greece’s Spyros Gianniotis is cool, calm and collected. But his parents are nervous. His father is Greek, but his mother is English. “It is going to be Spyros and Thomas [Lurz],” quietly predicts his mother … as do other pundits. “It’s going to be a
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Ivan Enderica Ochoa (#23) is Ecuador’s man at today’s Olympic marathon swim. He trains in Cuenca high up at 2,400 meters in the Andean Mountains. He will swim proudly and quickly in the six 1.6km loops around the Serpentine. Many of the parents and close friends of the 25 male swimmers are gathering in a
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Ous Mellouli Wins The Olympic Marathon Swim WOWSA, Serpentine, London. In a brilliant strategy that played to his strengths, Ous Mellouli swam away from the field to capture his second Olympic gold medal in today’s Olympic marathon swim in the Serpentine. Thomas Lurz captured the silver with young Richard Weinberger holding off Spyros Gianniotis for
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Oussama Mellouli made two communities happy with his gold medal marathon swim victory in the Serpentine today: his native country of Tunisia and his adopted USC (University of Southern California) family in America. His brilliant strategy throughout the 10,000m swim combined with his powerful strokes on the last two loops led to a dominant victory
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With the conclusion of the Olympic marathon swim at the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were several surprises and positive outcomes that resulted. 1. Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia (1:49:55.1) powered to an Olympic victory, giving Tunisia and Africa its first Olympic marathon swimming gold. His participation is also adequate evidence that open water swimming does
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The men’s Olympic marathon swim gold medalists are quite remarkable. First there was Maarten van der Weijden who won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not only was his athletic victory dramatic, so too was his life story. van der Weijden remains the only Olympic gold medalist in history to have captured gold
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Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Eva Risztov of Hungary are the 2012 London Olympics Games marathon swimming champions. Both athletes swam courageous, gutsy swims and they deserve the global accolades coming their way. While they did not swim together, they did swim under similar conditions in nearly identical water temperatures in a carefully marked course
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There are many valid reasons why Great Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne is the odds-on favorite to capture gold in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim tomorrow at 12 noon GMT in the Serpentine. These reasons vary from mental to physical, but also include a variety of other elements that may not be readily apparent, but are just
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Melissa Gorman, a serious contender for the gold in the Olympic marathon swim today in the Serpentine, has some serious fans cheering for her. Like many other swimmers from around the world, the mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers and sisters have followed their loved ones to London. There are no greater fans. The weather is
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