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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the early part of the most pressure-packed race of his life with a berth at the Olympics at stake, Richard Weinberger took a swipe at his swim cap to remove it. Off the cap came…but so did his goggles. Without panic, Weinberger grabbed his goggles and put them […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ous Mellouli‘s competitors in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10 km know that his qualification just upped the ante. While Europeans won all the open water medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the epicenter of the sport may have just shifted to Tunisia. The men’s Olympic marathon swim was already
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Craig Dietz completed his longest swim to date – the 4.4 miles of the Great Chesapeake Bay Swim. “I’ve never been one to just sit around and do nothing. I like to push myself,” explained Dietz to Fox News. And he faced a field that was not giving him any help. “I got punched in
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David Heron is an emerging American open water swimmer from Mission Viejo, California. Huron (third from left) placed third at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships 10 km race in Florida and then later won the 5 km national championship in dramatic fashion. He talked about his toughest swimming sets and workouts
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As Paul Lundgren is finalizing his final preparations for his 76-mile swim across the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, the “weather looks great for his swim,” says pace swimmer Jamie Patrick. “I will be swimming one hour every three hours. That puts me in the water about 15 hours [assuming Paul is swimming up to
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The intrepid Michelle Macy who recently tried the earliest attempts at the Tsugaru Channel and North Channel to complete the Oceans Seven was caught short on both attempts by impossibly turbulent waters and summer water temperatures that hovered just about 50°F (10°C). In her latest attempt today, Macy lasted 4 hours 41 minutes and had
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“It’s real now,” said Paul Lundgren before shoving off the east coast of Baja California for the mainland of Mexico 76 miles (122 km) to the east. All his dreams and fears, aspirations and worries have been bottled up in his mind … and now standing on the shore those dreams and aspirations are certainly
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Peter Attia will give a presentation at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, California titled The Limits of Scientific Evidence and the Ethics of Dietary Guidelines. “I am actually really looking forward to this talk, as it covers material I have not spoken on publicly
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The Big Moment in everyone’s open water swim (race or solo channel crossing) is different, profound and memorable for the individual. For many marathon and channel swimmers, triathletes, newcomers and others, they estimate the sport is 70-90% mental and 10-30% physical with smaller elements of fate, teamwork, nutrition/hydration, acclimatization, weight gain, rest and navigation making
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA formally announced the final list of the 50 athletes (25 men and 25 women) who will compete in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km races at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The finalists were selected at the FINA Olympic Marathon Swim Qualifier held in Setúbal Bay, Portugal this
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