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Courtesy of WOWSA, Las Vegas, Nevada. 18-year-old Erica Sullivan of the Sandpipers of Nevada will focus on training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will wait for two years to enroll at the University of Southern California until after the next Olympics. Her college coaches, Dave Salo and Catherine Vogt, are supportive of her decision. […]
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Courtesy of The Torture Swim hosted by Jeff Glor and produced by Alan Goldberg at Sandycove Island, Ireland. Muhammad Ali once explained how many sit-ups he does to prepare for his boxing matches, “I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count.” Ali’s training
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Courtesy of Päivi Pälvimäki, The Outdoor Association of Finland – Suomen Latu, Peurunka, Laukaa, Finland. Päivi Pälvimäki is the Winter Swimming Coordinator for The Outdoor Association of Finland – Suomen Latu. She describes an old winter swimming event in Peurunka, Laukaa, Finland. The inaugural Winter Swimming European Championships will be held between March 1st –
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Courtesy of Jim Ritterhoff, FORCE BLUE, Florida. Jim Ritterhoff, co-founder and Executive Director of FORCE BLUE, reported the following activities and achievements of his innovative program that he started with Rudy Reyes. FORCE BLUE give military veterans a chance to learn about and explore coral reefs, one of the most critically endangered ecosystems on the
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Courtesy of Gensler, San Pedro, California. AltaSea is growing as its business and innovation center on the shores of the San Pedro Channel (Catalina Channel) expands. AltaSea is renovating warehouses and other facilities along 35 acres (141,640 square meters) of previously unused docks at the Port of Los Angeles. Its ambitious goal: to position Los
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Sakurajima Kinko-Bay Open Water Swimming Championships (shown on left) has seen up to 242 four-person teams start on Sakurajima volcano and finish in Kagoshima in southern Japan. Many open water swimming competitions are held near volcanoes, active, dormant and extinct. Some of the more well-known volcano swims around
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Key West, Florida. Bill “Ciastko” Welzien completed his Century Swim around Key West in May, but he has continued his unprecedented number of solo swims around the 20.1 km island in southern Florida. His 103rd circumnavigation swim around Key West was escorted by Douglas Weeks [shown on left] in the 89°F (31.6°F)
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Photo courtesy of Ron Modra for Sports Illustrated Magazine, Manhattan Island. Julie Ridge authored Take It to the Limit: Endurance: How to Build It into Everything You Do in 1985. The Honor Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame certainly took her talents to the limit in the open water. Over the course
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Photo of Henri Kaarma, a recent honoree of the Ice Swimming Hall of Fame from Estonia, at the 2013 Tyumen Open Water Swimming Cup in Tyumen, Siberia by Nuala Moore. Dashing through the waterWith gel packs as our fodderIn a four-person drafting packWe swim fast with no slack O’er the waves we goPositioning, pacing with
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Courtesy of Salvatore Cimmino, Santa Fe, Argentina. On the starting line of the annual 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda together with many of the fastest professional marathon swimmers will be Salvatore Cimmino of Italy. Cimmino is a disabled Italian swimmer who became the first disabled athlete to swim across the Cook
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