Ous Mellouli Hints At An Enlarged Olympic Agenda
At the recent OptimisSport Swim Forum as part of the Distance Swim Challenge, there were numerous tidbits of insightful information and interesting hints and allusions. Olympic gold medalist Ous Mellouli who has been doing two workouts a day since he has 12 years old pushing his body constantly to its aerobic threshold explained how his left lung is larger than his right lung because he breathes only to one side.
Ous also smiled at his fellow swimmers on the panel, alluding that the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim may be part of his Olympic agenda in 2012. Given the flat Olympic course and Ous’ dabbling in open water swimming at the RCP Tiburon Mile, we may see the defending 1500m Olympic champion competing against the world’s best marathon swimmers in the Serpentine next year.
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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.
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