Category: Open Water
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Is The Paris Olympic Swim Actually Happening Now?! | Global Triathlon Network
Also – Mark discusses the huge amount of new tech we’ve seen ahead of the Olympics including some special tri suits for the team GB athletes! Lionel sanders has just punched his ticket for the world championship too, and apparently, 200 doping tests have also arrived for one Olympic team…
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More Than 11,000 People Took Part In Swimming Competition Across Lake Balaton, Hungary | Euronews
Imre Barabás and Máté Hartmann were announced winners having completed the swim in a tie- 1 hour, 1 minute, 54 seconds. Read Euronews
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200 Swimmers Join Long-Distance Swimming Race In Taiwan Strait | France 24 English
This Sunday two hundred swimmers from across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are taking part in a unique event – swimming from Taiwan’s offshore island of Kinmen to China. But despite the festive and unifying atmosphere, the Island is a potential flash point for a military escalation between Tapei and Beijing, which claims sovereignty…
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Hsu Wen-erh Becomes First Taiwanese To Solo Swim English Channel | Taiwanplus News
29-year-old Hsu Wen-erh has become the first Taiwanese person to swim solo across the English Channel. She completed the 44-kilometer journey in just over 12 hours.
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2 Women To Attempt Swim Across Cook Inlet | Alaska’s News Source
2 women to attempt swim across Cook Inlet
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Women Who Swim | Young Woman and the Sea | Disney UK
Alongside the recent release of the empowering feature film Young Woman and The Sea starring Daisy Ridley, we teamed up with some inspiring female swimmers to showcase their amazing achievements Young Woman and the Sea follows the real-life achievements of Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle who overcame enormous prejudice to be the first woman to swim the…
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Paris Authorities ‘Confident’ The River Seine Is Ready For Olympic Swimmers | The World | ABC News (Australia)
City workers have been cleaning up the Seine, and testing the water quality daily. The city’s mayor says it is clean enough for swimming and hosting the triathlon and open water swimming Olympic events. To prove it, she and others will dive in on Wednesday. Libby Hogan reports.
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Paris Mayor And Olympics Chief Swim In River Seine Amid Water Quality Concerns | Associated Press
Watch as Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, and Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, swim in the Seine following concerns over the river’s water quality for athletes competing in the Summer Games this month
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Parisians Reluctant To Swim In The Seine Despite Minister Taking A Dip | ABS-CBN News
Some Parisians said that they wouldn’t take a dip in the River Seine even after seeing the French sports minister swimming in the capital’s famed river ahead of the summer Olympics.
