Summertime Swimming With And By Chloë McCardel Courtesy of WOWSA, English Channel. It is not many swimmers have the opportunity to meet kings, but few swimmers have such a global reputation as channel swimmer Chloë McCardel. In December, McCardel was invited to meet the King of Bahrain, HM Hamad bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, […]

Chloë McCardel Soon To Set Off On Historic Four-Way Courtesy of Chloë McCardel, English Channel. Chloë McCardel will announce today the exact start time of her upcoming unprecedented four-way English Channel crossing attempt. McCardel will explain her plans at her training session at St Margaret’s at Cliffe, Kent, England today at 5:45 pm. “Within 48

Courtesy of the Open Water Swimming Magazine, published by WOWSA of California. Chloë McCardel may be living the life that every channel swimmer dreams of having: she swims, she is sponsored, she coaches, she gives motivational speeches. She spends her time either training or crossing channels. Her swims are the subject of television and media

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Exhausted, shivering and somewhat disoriented under medical care is how Chloë McCardel ended her 36 hour 12 minute three-way English Channel crossing today. But like her earlier swim in the Bahamas where she spent 6 days in a local hospital to recover, McCardel was triumphant in her pain. She

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Chloë McCardel is making her last preparations for another three-way attempt of the English Channel this weekend, weather permitting. She expects her attempt will take 35–40 hours in order to become the first Australian to do so, and only the fourth person in history to complete such a feat.