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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Weekday holidays may be created in Tokyo to aid events at 2020 Games JIJI SEP 30, 2016 ARTICLE HISTORY PRINT SHARE Tokyo 2020 Olympics officials decided at a liaison meeting Thursday to examine a proposal to turn weekdays during the games into holidays under special legislation to facilitate the […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LEEDS, UK–At the British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) Conference last weekend, Melanie Marshall garnered a third-straight Coach of the Year (CotY) honours. Marshall was cited for her work with Adam Peaty. Disability CotY honors went to Glenn Smith, and Youth CotY went to Alan Bircher. A report on the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It gives us great pleasure and is indeed a great honour to host in 2017 the 2nd Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships over 1000 m freestyle in our city of sport, Burghausen. Following the World Champs on 6-Jan, the Aqua Sphere German Open will take place for the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Oram, an inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame with hundreds of successful English Channel swims under his belt, gave these words of wisdom* to the Google Channel Swimmers Group: “If you attempt to swim the English Channel, you can
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The WOWSA Awards are not necessarily for the best athletes, but are meant to honor the men and women who: * best embody the spirit of open water swimming, * possess the sense of adventure, tenacity and perseverance that open water swimmers are known for, and * have most
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. with Theodore Yach, Martin Goodman and Ryan Stramrood at Robben Island. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This conversation has centered around drugs and substances introduced into the human body. But we are now entering the era where different manufactured parts are being introduced to the human body whether it is a pacemaker or hearing aid. I just came back from my lab at the Harvard
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Start-up companies from the Bay Area and Silicon Valley are constantly coming up with cool ideas and product ideas. The San Francisco-based Instabeat is no different. Its engineers are working on a unique device that attaches to swimming goggles and captures real-time heart rate data as well as the
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