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Oceans Seven – Body, Mind, Soul Heroes In The Catalina Channel Courtesy of Lucas Rivet, La Fabrica Films and Asociación Argentina Gestión y Desarrollo del Deporte. Matías Ola and his team, including Lucas Rivet, take off from their native Argentina around the world on their Oceans Seven challenge. This is a short documentary film about […]
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Kevin Dennehy Is Driven, Traveling 100K To Swim 1.6K Courtesy of Ned Denison, Sandycove Island Swimming Club, Cork, Ireland. Similar to English Channel aspirants being motivated to see their name on a plate on the walls of International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Organization Varne Ridge, there are other examples of swimmers who desire
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George Park, Billy Barton and Régent Lacoursière all swam past a Great White Shark in a professional marathon swimming race in Rhode Island during the 1968 season
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The Rich, Eventful Life Of Tom Bucy Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. On paper, Tom Bucy was an accomplished swimmer. He competed for the University of Michigan when it was the dominant team in American collegiate swimming (winnin 4 of 5 NCAA titles between 1957-1961) and racing on the World Professional Marathon Swimming
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Remembering The Competitive Races Of The King and Queen of the Sea Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. With the COVID-19 pandemic hitting Brazil hard, we remember the great races we witnessed for several years at the King and Queen of the Sea (Rei e Rainha do Mar) event on Copacabana Beach in Rio
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Le Marathon du Saguenay from Chicoutimi to Bagotville Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Le Marathon du Saguenay was a 45 km professional marathon swim held on the Saguenay River from Chicoutimi to Bagotville in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. The event was sanctioned by the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation in the
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Loren King, A Renaissance Man In The Open Water Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. As channel swimmers know well, the course to the finish is usually not a straight line. Far from it. Something that Professor Loren King has personally experienced. King, with a doctorate from M.I.T. and associate professor of political science
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Influencers From Alexandria Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. Nasser Elshazly is not only an Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as his father Captain Nabil Elshazly is, they both helped to widely promote the sport and support many events and other swimmers, both domestically in their native country of
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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In a throwback episode (from June 2012) of Open Water Wednesday (the precursor to WOWSA Live), USA Swimming open water swimming coordinator extraordinaire and an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame and International Swimming Hall of Fame dual inductee Dale Petranech spoke with Steven Munatones on a variety
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Dr. Jim Miller On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. In a throwback episode (from June 2012) of Open Water Wednesday (the precursor to WOWSA Live), USA Swimming national team doctor and FINA Sports Medicine Committee member Jim Miller, M.D. spoke with Steven Munatones on a variety of topics. Copyright © 2008
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