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Cameron Bellamy Is 34 km In Courtesy of Ubunye Challenge, Barbados, Caribbean Sea. In the graphic above, Cameron Bellamy started on Barbados and is now 34 km towards his ultimate goal of 150.4 km to the St. Lucia after a grueling 14 hours 33 minutes. With over 116 km to go, Bellamy’s location is shown […]
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Four For One, One For Four: The Epic Adventure Of Sarah Thomas Courtesy of James Musselwhite, Outdoor Swimmer Magazine. How in the world does a woman with breast cancer go into remission after a tough battle – and then attempt something that has never before come even close to being achieved? Sarah Thomas will show
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Cameron Bellamy Gets Lucky On Friday The 13th Courtesy of Ubunye Challenge, Barbados, Caribbean Sea. Today, Friday the 13th, Cameron Bellamy started in his 150 km attempt to swim non-stop from Barbados to St. Lucia. He plans to swim from St Peters Bay on Barbados to Vieux Fort on the southerly tip of St Lucia
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Swimming From Stari Grad, Freestyling To Faros Courtesy of Istarske Sportske Reportaže, Faros Maratón, Stari Grad Bay, Hvar Island, Croatia. The Faros Maratón serves as the annual 16 km Croatian International Long Distance Swimming Championships from Stari Grad Bay to Faros, Croatia. It is organized by the Croatian Long Distance Swimming Federation that was inducted
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Swim Across America – Catalina Island Circumnavigation Success Courtesy of Megan Melgaard, Catalina Island, Pacific Ocean. Six Swim Across America relay team members successfully completed a circumnavigation of Catalina Island this morning, raising over US$60,000 for cancer research and cutting-edge clinical trials. The funds will go towards a Young Investigator Grant through Swim Across America
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Racing At 5 am Courtesy of Nippon TV News 24 Japan, Tokyo, Japan. While the pool swimmers will compete in the Olympic finals in the mid-morning hours during the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games so the American television audience will watch the Olympic swim finals live in prime time, the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim finalists will
Déjà vu – Irish Sea Swim Gets Prepared Courtesy of Ger Kennedy, Irish Sea. Attempted once. Attempted twice. Attempted a third time. The Irish Sea Swim was attempted 3 times before by an Irish relay of six swimmers finally completed the extremely difficult 100+ km crossing in August 1993 in 29 hours 59 minutes and
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Treasured Towel Of Talent Courtesy of Ned Denison, English Channel. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Michelle Macy was in Dover this weekend. She noticed that Bel Lavers was sitting on a towel with her name on it. She wondered who made the towels. The ubiquitous Ned Denison answered, “The towel lists all
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Landmarks Of New York Swim cap courtesy of Metropolitan Swimming, New York. Metropolitan Swimming is the governing body for competitive swimming in the New York area. Most of the athletes who compete in Metro-sponsored swim meets are USA Swimming members under the age of 18. The area that Metro covers is New York City, Nassau,
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Freestyling For Four, The Heroic Comeback Of Sarah Thomas Sarah Thomas was not supposed to do this. But she is. She was not projected to be here. But she is. She was fought back from the depths of cancer and is now in her swim window, waiting to become the first person to swim a
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