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“I feel very passionately about many of the same things Fran did – obviously [safety], promoting the sport, inspiring younger kids. That gives a whole other level of meaning and purpose to my career,” explained Alex Meyer to ESPN’s Bonnie Ford. NBC Sports Network will broadcast Sports Illustrated tonight at 9 pm New York time, […]
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The Ghana Swimming Association hosted its first National Open Water Swimming Championship in June this year with races in the 14-16, 17-18, 19 & over age groups over 5 km, 7.5 km and 10 km courses. With the swimmers now ready for even more races, the Ghana Swimming Association along with the other open water
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Not only will there be great conversations, educational seminars and inspirational presentations at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on September 21-23, but there will also be artwork on the open water swimming world enhancing the conference rooms aboard the Queen Mary. Dr. Lisa Stansbie is one of those artists
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Not only will there be great conversations, educational seminars and inspirational presentations at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California on September 21-23, but there will also be artwork celebrating the open water swimming world enhancing the conference rooms aboard the Queen Mary. In addition to Dr. Lisa Stansbie from England,
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If an athlete had time and resources to do an open water swim in all 50 states of the USA, this state-by-state list would be one possible bucket list of swims. This list is only a tiny sliver of the over 1,000 open water swims across America. It is simply one point of discovery –
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The English Channel swimming community was delighted to hear of Nick Adams‘s eighth successful crossing of the Channel today. As the president of the Channel Swimming & Piloting Federation, he is well aware of the history and challenge of swimming across the English Channel. The wildly popular and passionate channel swimmer and administrator is still
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Peter Frayne (shown on left), a retired police officer whose beat was along the Dover waterfront who served as the Honorable Assistant Secretary of the Channel Swimming Association, passed away earlier this year at the age of 92. Marathon swimmer Dr. Harry Huffaker (shown on right with Frayne) remembers his good friend who also served
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A six-person relay team of Japanese masters swimmers from Tokyo’s Ocean Navi completed their first crossing of the Tsugaru Channel yesterday. Under the helm of Captain Mizushima with the support of coordinator Masayuki Moriya and observer Motoko Honma, Kouji Kobayashi (小林功司 age 44), Etsuko Shima (島悦子 age 51), Yoshitaka Saito (斎藤好豪 age 43), Naoko Saito
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Are Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte swimming across the Thames? Are they adding open water to their Olympic schedule? Doing a special match race in a cross-river swim? No, it is just an outstanding illustration by Sam Manchester for the New York Times. But they will be churning up the pool water with a wake
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While the eyes of the world will be on the Olympic marathon swimming 10km in the Serpentine on August 9th (women) and 10th (men), the explosively growing open water swimming world forges on uninterrupted. On August 11th, 42 swimmers (18 women and 24 men) from 13 countries will take part in the 6th annual Traversée
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