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What To Say – Or Not – To An Open Water Swimmer Courtesy of Coruja Filmes Produtora of Adherbal de Oliveira swimming the Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are lots of things that open water swimmers know, both instinctively and learned over time. They learn about how it is best […]
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Nominate Your Favorite Product, Event, Movie Or Book For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year Photo courtesy of Josef Köberl, Hintertuxer Gletscher, Austria. The innovative Icebears Hintertux training camp held in Austria and organized by Josef Köberl was voted as the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year. Anyone
Nominate Your Favorite Swimmers For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ion Lazarenco Tiron of the Republic of Moldava was voted the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year. Anyone can nominate any swimmer, coach, pilot, race director, official, administrator, writer or filmmaker
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Russians May Be Barred From The 2020 Olympic Marathon Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Odaiba Marine Park, Tokyo Bay, Japan. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from international sports events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, for 4 years due purposefully false doping tests. But marathon swimmers in
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Nominate Your Favorite Swimmer For The 2019 World Open Water Swimming Woman Of The Year Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last year in a very close online vote, young Polish winter swimmer and channel swimmer Aleksandra Bednarek was voted the 2018 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year among an illustrious group of
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Little Is Huge Courtesy of Clark Little Photography, Oahu, Hawaii. While open water swimmers stand onshore to stretch, plan out, and recover from their swim, Clark Little spends a vast majority of his time in the ocean right on the shoreline. For ocean swimmers, Little’s beautifully creative work speaks volumes. Flip through his 2020 Calendar
Bell Is Rung & Heard In The International Swimming Hall of Fame Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Marilyn Bell stood and swam among the giants of the sport – and her legacy will be permanently recognized by the global swimming community upon her induction in the International Swimming Hall of
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A Passion For The Ice By Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova Courtesy of Nuala Moore. To date, 483 swimmers from 38 countries have completed 330 Ice Miles – and hundreds more have competed in Ice Kilometers in many ice swimming events around the world. With an increasing number of ice swimmers doing increasingly colder and more extreme
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A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if that term was used
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Courtesy of International Swimming Hall of Fame and Challenger Community News, Western New York. The exploits of Charles Jackson French and Charles Chapman, Jr. are part of open water swimming lore that was part the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Black Swimming History Exhibition [see here]. The Exhibition told of the long-lost aquatic history of
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