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The Open Water Swimming Grit Survey Courtesy of Mitali Khanzode, San Francisco Bay, California. Mitali Khanzode is a senior in high school in Sunnyvale, California who has been open water open water swimming nearly half of her life so far. The incoming Stanford freshmen completed her last research project in high school that focused on […]
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Pradeep Kumar Keeps Coaching And Developing India’s Best Courtesy of Madhu Nagaraja, Nanniyode Village, Thiruvananthapuram District of Kerala, India. The 2016 Dronacharya Award for Outstanding Coaches in Sports and Games in India was given to long-time swimming coach Pradeep Kumar Sreedharan. Among his many accolades was being named a member to the prestigious FINA Coaches
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Swimming In The Wake Of Richard Weinberger WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. Notwithstanding calls both inside and outside Japan for a cancellation of the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics of July 23rd – August 8th 2021 due to the possibility of not adequately managing the coronavirus pandemic by next year, Swimming Canada continues to make
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3 Amigos: Hugo Rodríguez, Ivar Sisniega, Antonio Argüelles On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. 3 friends, Hugo Rodríguez Barroso, Ivar Sisniega, and Antonio Argüelles talked about grit, passion, failure and success on today’s WOWSA Live. The three men all had a similar start – as swimmers – to their athletic careers, but
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Hugo Rodríguez Barroso To Appear On WOWSA Live Courtesy of WOWSA Live, Mexico City. The English Channel is occasionally referred to as the Mount Everest of Swimming. Completing a successful swim across the English Channel and the summiting of Mount Everest by a single individual is known as the Peak and Pond Challenge. It is
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Reef & Run Redux? Courtesy of Reef & Run, Santa Barbara, California. 2008…2009…2010…2011…2012…2013…2014…2015…2016…2017…2018…2019…but what about 2020? These are the questions that nearly every race director and most swimmers are thinking about their swims or events for the remainder of 2020. If the Japanese Olympic Committee and an increasing number of other stakeholders are giving out
KAATSU Aqua On SwimShare Courtesy of SwimShare. SwimShare, an easy-to-use, quick and intuitive workout planning, tracking and sharing app for swimmers and coaches made by ClubAssistant offered a Zoom session on KAATSU Aqua today. Gators Swim Club head coach Chris Morgan (swam at UC Davis), International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Steven Munatones
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Gotta Keep Your Discipline, John Muenzer And Ned Denison On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. Former collegiate and marathon swimmer John Muenzer and International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison covered a profound number of topics on today’s WOWSA Live simultcast from both Cork, Ireland and Cincinnati, Ohio. Muenzer and
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Swim It And They Will Come Courtesy of Dr. Karah Nazor, Swim The Suck, Tennessee River Gorge, Tennessee. Dr. Karah Nazor, founder of the C.O.W.S. (Chattanooga Open Water Swimmers), established the Swim The Suck and then later created the Triple Crown of the Tennessee, a 3-race series totaling 34.1 km along the Tennessee River including:
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Swimming Around The World, Olympian Ashley Twichell On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Huntington Beach, California. Sixth place never seemed so good – or such a relief – for 5 km world champion Ashley Twichell. She has won world championship races, both individually and on relays. She has won multiple USA Swimming national titles in
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