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Courtesy of Seti Afoa, Samoa Swim Series, Tahiti to Mo’orea. Saison 3 of the 2019 Tahiti Swimming Experience will include a 20 km cross-channel ocean swim between Ta’apuna on Tahiti and Plage de Tema’e on Mo’orea in October 2019. The stage was set by Seti Afoa of Samoa Swim Series who organized the first land-to-land […]
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Courtesy of FINA, Hangzhou, China. Stéphane Lecat of France will speak in Hangzhou, China on the Keys of Long-Distance Training at the 5th FINA World Aquatics Convention. Lecat will travel directly from Mo’orea where he is coaching world champion Aurélie Muller, Logan Fontaine, and Olympic bronze medalist Marc-Antoine Olivier at the 10 km Moz Coral
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Courtesy of Aquatic Capital of America, Long Beach, California. It has been quite a year for 50-year-old Hank Wise. With a 7 hour 55 minute crossing of the 32.3 km channel, Wise became the new King of the Catalina Channel. The Long Beach Wilson High School and Stanford University graduate and lifelong surfer and waterman
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Courtesy of Ed Grant, California. The book by Ed Grant, called Piers Of The California Coast, shares the collective experiences of Scott Zornig and a crew of around-the-pier ocean swimmers during their unprecedented 2013 Fear No Pier challenge. The group collectively and cumulatively swam around 73 different piers along the California coast, driving and eating
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Aurélie Muller, La Fille Du Feuve Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. To hear Aurélie Muller‘s cries after the 10 km marathon swim at the 2016 Rio Olympics was to hear deeply profound agony and disappointment by an athlete who was disqualified after long chasing her Olympic dreams. It was heartbreakingly sad to watch. But
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Courtesy of Tahiti Swimming Experience, Tahiti and Mo’orea. The first two races of the Tahiti Swimming Experience got off to a fast start. Highlighted by Aurélie Muller winning the women’s 5 km and a sprint to the finish victory by Logan Fontaine over Marc-Antoine Olivier, the race began as the tide was flooding into a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Dorset, UK. Youth is valued in Hollywood, especially among females. But Dorset is a long way from Hollywood. Filmmaker Scott Trotter is looking for a female cold water swimmer over the age of 50 to be subject of a short film this month. The shoot will take place in Dorset and interested
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Courtesy of The Wild Swimming Brothers, Planet Earth.
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Photo courtesy of April Wong, A Love Creative at The Olympic Club, San Francisco, California. Interview courtesy of Open Water News, Ibiza, Spain. Tita Llorens Bagur won the 2017 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, but her 101.6 km swim between the Spanish mainland and Cala Colodar on Ibiza across the Canal de