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Open Water Source provides information in Spanish on the Olympic marathon swimming 10km here. Spanish-speaking Olympic marathon swimmers include Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina, Erika Villaécija García of Spain, Yanel Adriana Pinto Pérez of Venezuela, Lizeth Rueda Santos of Mexico, Francisco “Kiko” Hervás of Spain, Iván Enderica Ochoa of Ecuador and Erwin Maldonado of Venezuela. Copyright
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The Olympic marathon swimmers have spent years waking up early, going to the pool to swim lap after lap, and training up to 6 hours a day. The sacrifice is clearly evident. But there are also men and women who have spent years and, in many cases, decades waking up early, going to the pool
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The Olympic marathon swimmers have spent years waking up early, going to the pool to swim lap after lap, and training up to 6 hours a day. The sacrifices are clearly evident. But there are men and women who have spent years and decades also waking up early, going to the pool and sacrificing much
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Behind the dominant Chinese Olympic champion Sun Yang, two Olympic 10km marathon swim finalists swam quick 1500m times in the preliminary heats in London. Ous Mellouli qualified second in the 1500m in 14:46.23 while Daniel Fogg also qualified for the 1500m final in 14:56.12. The 2008 Tunisian gold medalist will meet his British rivals two
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There are few open water swimming traditions like the Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia in northern Spain. The quaint town of Navia offers up its gracious Spanish hospitality to the hundreds of swimmers who descend upon the area for the multi-race event held over 3 days. The Descenso a Nado de la
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The design of the poster of the Descenso a Nado de la Ría de Navia is clever and historical. The poster incorporates the signatures of the 54 previous winners including 11-time winner and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer David Meca as well as the two Spanish representatives at the 2012 Olympic marathon
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Rick Walker will be a busy coach at the 2012 London Olympics. The former long-time coach of the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Team, Walker also coaches Mazen Aziz of Egypt (shown on left) and Csaba Gercask of Hungary in college. The 22-year-old Egyptian and his Hungarian teammate, who both represent the Southern Illinois
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Success follows Vito Bialla like a pack of swimmers behind Keri-Anne Payne. He became a world-class sailor, purchased an award-winning vineyard in Napa Valley, developed an extremely successful consulting and executive search firm, completed numerous ultra-marathons and multi-day triathlons, and established the Farallon Islands Swimming Association and the Nigh Train Swimmers. The Nigh Train Swimmers
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