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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
The selection of the top two American women to compete in the final Olympic 10 km Marathon Swim in Portugal this June is shown in its entirety below. Ashley Twichell of the Mission Viejo Nadadores played her cards right and comfortably won the USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Championships in Fort Myers, Florida this bright […]
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Andrew Gemmell‘s victory at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships is shown below in its entirety. “I started the final sprint probably about 400 meters out after the last turn,” explained the Delaware native studying at the University of Georgia who is setting himself up for a good run at the USA
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Mark Lambert of Hinsdale, coached by the legendary Don Watson, won the 6-mile Sea of Galilee swim back in 1970. The holder of national high school pool records became a Face In The Crowd in Sports Illustrated as a result. His story, as a young teenager flying around the world, is fascinating. After finishing behind
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Endurance athletes in every sport are a breed apart. They are often more cerebral than celebrated, more introverted than extroverted, more inspirational than arrogant. They know what they want and they set an agenda to achieve their goals in a methodical manner. Those in the aquatic world are especially driven with their head in the
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Jayson Chin is a renowned Orthotist Prosthetist from Cape Town, South Africa who heads the Cape Amputee Clinic where all aspects of life as an amputee are addressed. The Cape Amputee Clinic often manufactures ‘shower legs’ for amputees that can get wet and are used for showering, wadding into water and walking on the beach.
Jayson Chin Helping People In And Out Of The Water Read More »
One of the unique presentations at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference will be an interview with Ben Lecomte during his Longest Swim from Japan to California. In his nearly inconceivable stage swim from Tokyo to San Francisco, Lecomte will be swimming day by day as he makes his way across the largest body
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Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier. Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson. Steve Ovett vs. Sebastian Coe. Arnold Palmer vs. Jack Nicklaus. Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson. Roger Federer vs. Rafael Nadal. Andy Irons vs. Kelly Slater. Great rivalries in sports showcase intense competition between focused, committed athletes often competing for something larger than themselves: their teammates,
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The classic 58-minute head-to-head, leave-it-all-in-the-water duel between Ashley Twichell and Emily Brunemann at the 2012 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship 5 km race is shown in its entirety below. “I got touched out by 3 tenths of a second at the world championships so that played on my mind,” said Twichell who won
One Hour Of Racing Comes Down To Tenths Of A Second Read More »
Turn buoys are some of the most key elements of the open water swimming world. Inflatable, portable floating guide posts of the waterworld. They immediately indicate a point, a turn, a hazard, a shore, a current, a pier, a jetty, rocks or the finish on a loop course, out-and-back course or geometrically shaped courses. In
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Dana Swanson has always been around water – as a native of San Diego, as a competitive swimmer, at the office in her day job, in the pool keeping fit, in the mountains snowboarding, along the coast skateboarding, or in the Pacific ocean surfing. Swanson describe her classic life-work balance, “My gills dry out if
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