Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Dean recalled her goals as a channel swimmer. "I had three goals whenever I swam. To successfully make it across. To set a record. And to accomplish my goal time." Dean, the last person to concurrently hold both the records for the Catalina Channel and English Channel (of which she still holds
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Several well-known American Olympic champions (Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky) appear in a Colle+McVoy commercial for USA Swimming. The voiceover is that of another 3-time Olympic gold medalist, Rowdy Gaines. Quite accurately, the Ad of the Week as selected by AdWeek, ends in
Photo courtesy of Team USA. Haley Anderson's current arena is the open water, but her roots were competitive swimming. The former NCAA champion was recently nominated by USA Swimming for two awards for its annual Golden Goggles Awards. She is nominated along with the pool swimming heroines of USA Swimming: Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin who are
Photos courtesy of USA Swimming. While there is reportedly over one million individuals who do some form of winter swimming throughout China, over 85% of Australians live near its beautiful coastlines, and nearly every elementary school in Japan has a swimming pool on its campus, America is another country where swimming is popular at all levels. Since
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We see a lot of similarities between aquatic athletes in various disciplines. Whether the athletes is an open water swimmer walking triumphantly onto shore, a pool swimmer hitting the wall with a best time, a diver nailing a dive of high technical difficulty, a water polo player scoring a goal, or a
One of the hardest things to do in the open water is to resist the temptation to look up. While it is occasionally necessary to look up and forward (sighting) towards the next turn buoy, to a swimmer in front, to the finish, or to the other shore, swimmers should swim with their head down, both in the pool and the open water - not with their eyes looking
FINA announced its Athletes of the Year for 2012. Based on a vote of its 202 National Member Federations, media representatives and aquatic experts, the FINA Open Water Swimming Athletes of 2012 are, not surprisingly, Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia and Eva Risztov of Hungary. The pair swam to gold medal victories in the Olympic 10km Marathon Swim in the
