Bone Breaks Haunt Elite American Swimmers
In the second freak accident to hit the elite echelon of America’s professional marathon swimmers in recent months, Olympian Alex Meyer suffered a fracture in his collarbone caused by a bicycle accident. His injury comes after the double leg fracture that his American open water swimming team member Christine Jennings suffered in a professional race in Brazil.
But Christine quickly rehabilitated herself back to health and is currently training hard with her hopes still alive in making the 2012 Olympic team. With Alex’s spot secured in the Olympic Marathon Swimming 10km final on August 10th in the Serpentine, we foresee him competing among the leaders and most probably laying off bicycles at least for a while.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.
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