Category: Open Water
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Support European triathlete champion Camilla ‘Mille’ Pedersen’s fight for life
See Indsamling til Mille European champion Camilla Pedersen is still in a critical condition after her accident the 3rd of September and she is kept in a coma in Odense, where her family is by her side. As a professional athlete she is making her living from winning races and due to her accident, she…
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Doctors begin process to wake up European Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen
Read witsup.com Doctors at Odense University Hospital, where the European Ironman Champion remains, have reported that they have begun to lower Pedersen’s sleeping medication and will begin the process to waken her. While Pedersen remains in a critical condition, she is more stable than before. This process can take up to two weeks. Doctors have…
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Diana Nyad: Xtreme Dream
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows Diana Nyad while she attempts to break a world record, swimming from Cuba to Florida.
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Should Ice Swimming Be In The Olympics?
A good question here on Open Water Swimming One of the most fascinating topics at the 2012 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Long Beach, California was the discussion on how to get ice swimming into the Winter Olympics. Those discussions will undoubtedly continue at the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference in Cork, Ireland.…
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Catherine Vogt on Training Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli
“Catherine Vogt, the head open water coach for the United States at the 2013 world championships, talks about training world champions Haley Anderson and Ous Mellouli.”
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David Walliams dives in to SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace
“David Walliams waded in for his latest swim challenge joining hundreds of eager swimmers from around the country to take on British Gas SwimBritain at Blenheim Palace’s Great Lake. The comic actor joined forces with a host of Olympic and Paralympic swim stars including Keri-anne Payne, Duncan Goodhew, Cassie Patten and Graham Edmunds to encourage…
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Tudor Morris to swim the English Channel this September, behold his beautiful video
See Virgin Money Giving My name is Tudor Morris and when I was 13 years old I was diagnosed with stage 3 non-hodgkins lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the immune system and lymphatic glands where white blood cells are produced. By the time I started treatment the cancer had spread and I had…
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Congo Swim 2013
“You are invited to support peace and justice in a location of your choice through CongoSwim. Learn more at congoswim.org. Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo learned to swim as an adult and braved the roughest current and waves during the crossing of the 22 mile length of Lake Tahoe in California with Keris Dahlkamp.…
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Shirin Gerami first female triathlete to compete for Iran
See The Guardian A 24-year-old woman from Iran will this weekend make history in London by becoming the first female triathlete to take part in a world championship under the green, white and red tricolour of the Islamic republic’s flag. Shirin Gerami will join 8,500 athletes from 83 countries taking part in the PruHealth world…