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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
They are photogenic. They are incredibly physically fit. They smile brightly and wave enthusiastically to the crowds before and after their races. They hug each other after their races are over. They give great interviews with thoughtful answers. They freely give autographs and are helpful to those who ask. The world’s fastest marathon swimmers are […]
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Facebook’s Data Science Team is responsible for combining their mathematical abilities, programming skills and social science to datamine the information on Facebook for insights that may have significant impact on social sciences. The Data Science Team leader Cameron Marlow explains, “This is the first time the world has seen this scale and quality of data
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Traditional Swedish goggles or Aquasphere’s wide-angle lens? Mirrored or clear? Prescription or optical? Open water swimmers have so many choices of their favored goggles – and the choices continue to expand as the sport grows. When a child puts on goggles for the first time, they just grab a pair, put them on their head,
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Jason Lassen will attempt to be the first person to solo marathon swim from Beaver Island in Lake Michigan to the shoreline in Good Hart, Michigan. Similar to his record-setting breaststroke swim across the Catalina Channel in 2010 that was done without the benefit of GPS technology, the 39-year-old Lassen plans to complete the entire
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With Darren Miller and Stephen Redmond ready to take on the Tsugaru Channel, Japanese is on the minds of their crew members including Miller’s brother, a documentary film crew from Red Bull Media House, Captain Mizushima and lead coordinator Masayuki Moriya of Ocean Navi. Out in the ocean, during
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The open water swimming community is doing more and more POW (Pool Open Water) events, but the Japanese have really stepped it up a notch. Instead of doing a POW competition in a rectangular 50-meter pool, the Oiso Prince Hotel hosted a POW event in its hotel facilities at its seaside resort location – near
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On August 10th at 12 noon London time during the men’s Olympic 10km Marathon Swim, keep an eye on Bulgarian great Petar Stoychev. He may not have the speed that he once had, but there will be no one smarter than the 4-time Olympian at navigating within the lead pack and squeezing out every last
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Under the leadership of Head Coach Dave Salo with assistants Kevin Clements and Catherine Vogt, the USC (University of Southern California) Trojans will be coming out in full force at the upcoming 2012 London Olympics. There are numerous Trojans (current, incoming and former students and club members) scheduled to compete for several countries in swimming
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Craig Coombs, president of his own medical device consulting company, got the open water swimming bug and it is not going away soon. After conquering the 9.3-mile (15 km) Pailolo Channel from Maui to Molokai in February and Kalohi Channel between Molokai and Lanai, he decided to turn his attention to Europe and the Strait
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The Olympic athletes will be presented as larger-than-life superheroes. But in the open water swimming world, these mild-mannered Clark Kents are difficult to distinguish on land with their humble attitudes and “everyman” aura. But put them in the open water and open water swimmers showcase their tremendously unique abilities and mental strengths. Copyright © 2012
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