Category: Open Water
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Tens of thousands swim across Sun Moon Lake at annual event
Read Focus Taiwan Tens of thousands of people joined an annual mass swimming event on Sunday across Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan’s largest fresh water lake. Over 25,000 swimmers attempted the 3,000-meter swim across the lake in the central county of Nantou, including 237 disabled people and 1,088 foreign swimmers from 30 countries, organizers said.
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Ben McKenzie to star in ‘The Swimmer’, a film about extreme swimming
Read Deadline Southland‘s Ben McKenzie is set to star in The Swimmer, about an American extreme swimmer who sets out to conquer one of Norway’s wildest rivers and in doing so must confront his inner demons. The Swimmer is backed by the U.S.-Norway Film Development Project as well as the regional film funds of Norway and will also star Norwegian…
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Diana Nyad to meet marathoners who doubt her Cuba-to-Florida swim
The media world is exploding in news about how a community of marathon swimmers is now questioning whether Diana Nyad actually accomplished the feat to swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. See for instance philly.com, 10News, Ocala.com, ABC Action News, pnj.com, Las Vegas Guardian Express, The Vancouver Sun, ESPN, cbs12.com, … On social…
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Camilla Pedersen will remain in coma for at least 10-14 days
Read Lokalavisen.dk (in Danish) An emotional triathlon national coach Michael Krüger told Lokalavisen Esbjerg Monday morning, that Camilla Pedersen is being woken up in 10 to 14 days at the earliest. There are no significant changes in her condition, which remains critical but stable. “And it may unfortunately be even longer than that. This because…
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Swimming Britain | Sean Conway’s open water swimming technique
Sean talks about his open water swimming technique. Follow Sean’s journey here – http://www.speedo.co.uk/en_uk/infoadv…
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Whole World calling on injured triathlete Camilla Pedersen
Read Jyllands-Posten (in Danish) “It’s been a storm without equal. It has gone around the world, and my phone has been red hot since Tuesday, says Michael Krüger, national coach of the Danish Triathlon Federation, now at third day waiting for news about the Danish European champion Camilla Pedersen, who crashed her bike Tuesday night.…
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Widow Of Columbus Man Says He Completed Cuba To Florida Swim First
Via the17thman “While the world celebrates marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a Central Ohio woman said her husband completed the same journey nearly 35 years ago. Faye Poenisch, widow of Walter Poenisch, said her husband completed the same swim at the age of 68. Walter Poenisch began marathon…
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The Onion: Jellyfish falls short of dream to kill Diana Nyad
See story on the Onion Just one day after Diana Nyad completed her record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida, a local box jellyfish expressed its deep disappointment Tuesday morning at narrowly failing to achieve its lifelong dream of killing the 64-year-old swimmer. “From the time I was just a young ephyra, I’ve dreamt of the…
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Sport Science – Diana Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida Swim
ESPN Sport Science’s John Brenkus examines the extreme endurance it took for Diana Nyad to swim 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Fl in 53 hours.