Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Steve Garagiola, a Detroit-based anchor, reported on Sean Ryan's upcoming participation in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Copacabana Beach. Garagiola says that Rio de Janeiro's extremely high levels of drug-resistant super bacteria in garbage and human waste are flowing untreated into Copacabana
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Copacabana Beach certainly ain't a rowing basin or a manmade lake. Site of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in one of the world's most famous beaches facing winter season in the Atlantic Ocean, Copacabana Beach has the very distinct probability to have huge waves, strong currents, massive tidal flows and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. People ask what are the best vantage points to watch the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim on Copacabana Beach, which is one of the few sports in the Olympics that will have a combination of paid seating and free standing-room only sections. But Copacabana Beach is a relatively flat, but extremely wide stretch of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Three-time Olympic medalist Ous Mellouli of Tunisia and Japanese 2-time Olympian Yasunari Hirai were training at high altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona with coach Bill Rose of the Mission Viejo Nadadores. How fast do these athletes train for their upcoming Olympic 10K Marathon Swim final in Copacabana Beach at
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games...but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture gold. One of those athletes is reigning world 10 km champion who blew away his competition in Kazan,
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is nearly impossible to accurately predict the medalists in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games...but some athletes are ideally prepared to swim the race of their lives and capture gold. One of those athletes is a two-time Olympic veteran who came within 0.4 seconds of winning an
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Since Lynne Cox in her bell-ringing article recently posted in the New York Times [see here] has called for the IOC and FINA to change the venue of the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the following questions immediately come to mind: Q1. Since the local organizations do not
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We do not believe Lynne Cox. That statement in itself is sacrilegious. Statements by one of the greatest swimmers - and certainly the most eloquent aquatic adventurers - of this generation and arguably of any generation - are taken at face value. That is, what she says and writes is 100% true and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With 110 days left to the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Copacabana Beach at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, we wonder when the official race course will be announced. While the course shown above was used at the 2015 marathon swim test event held by the Rio Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Cassandra Patten of Great Britain raced in the finals of both the 800m freestyle in the pool and the 10 km marathon swim in the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park, winning a bronze medal. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Ous Mellouli of Tunisia raced in the finals of
