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  • Culver City Native To Attempt 27-Mile Swim

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Abigail Bergman, who had been living in Chicago, came back to Southern California in March. DeMarco Morgan reports.

  • Mike Tyson Swims with Sharks | Tyson vs Jaws: Rumble on the Reef

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nature

    Mike Tyson is about to come face to face with the baddest challengers in the ocean… but first – the all-important Dive Prep.

  • Youngest swimmer will now be in college for Olympic debut

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Luca Urlando is a swimmer hoping to make it to Tokyo next year. He’s only 18 and had the games not been postponed, he would have been the first high schooler on Team USA since Michael Phelps.

  • Workout for Swimmers with the LRC Swim Team 🏊🏼‍♀️

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Dryland

    Here is a total body weight workout for swimmers brought to you by the LRC Swim Team!

    3 Rounds of 10 exercises
    1 Round – 30 sec
    2 Round – 40 sec
    3 Round – 50 sec

    1. High knees
    2. Push up
    3. Mountain climber
    4. Bear walk
    5. Burpees
    6. Suicide plank
    7. Squat jump
    8. V up
    9. Lunges
    10. Dish rock

    Doing all 10 movements back to back (No rest!) and take 1 minute break between set! Let’s do it together💥!

  • Reliving Rio: Chad le Clos ‘swimming silvers champion’

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Chad le Clos became a swimming superstar overnight with his gold and silver medals at the London Olympics, a lot was expected of the Durban-born le Clos in Rio de Janeiro where he came away with 2 silver medals to make the 24-year-old South Africa’s most decorated Olympic swimmer.

  • Shark bites man and clings onto arm for 45 minutes

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nature

    As a teaser to our mini-documentary on shark attacks, here is a brand new clip featuring a particularly clingy shark.

  • 16-year-old Vera Rivard, of Springfield, swims across English Channel in just over 14 hours

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    A local long-distance swimming sensation has powered her way across the English Channel.

    Sixteen-year-old Vera Rivard of Springfield, New Hampshire, and Derby, Vermont, finished her swim from Dover, England to Wissant Beach in France Tuesday night just before midnight. She started at 9:38 a.m. and finished at 11:48 p.m., with over 14 hours in the water.

    She encountered rough conditions, with air temperatures almost 58 degrees and the water temperature 63 degrees. She’s just the 1,676th person to make the crossing since 1875 and the second American to finish the swim in 2020.

    See WCAX
  • 2020 | Coros Malta – Gozo – Malta Channel Swimming Competition

    Sep 3, 2020

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    rokur
    in Open Water

    Birkirkara St. Joseph is synonymous with Open Water Swimming and the annual Channel Competition is a long awaited event by open water swimmers.

  • This Guy Built A Circulating Seal Enclosure

    Sep 2, 2020

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    rokur
    in Nature, Wow, WTF

    The circulating seal enclosure is cool and all, but is nobody going to address the fact that this guy seems to have a pet seal in his pool? Is that a thing that’s allowed now? Because the last time I asked about it I ended up on a list.

    See Geekologie
    https://youtu.be/39t1ul5iaxw
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