Images courtesy of NBCOlympics.com, Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro. American open water swimmers told Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune that he didn't notice anything wrong with the water in Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro despite repeated statements outlining fears of pollution and warnings of sewage by a number of American coaches, researchers
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. Olympic fans from each country generally and overwhelmingly cheer for the athletes from their own country. Sean Ryan and Jordan Wilimovsky will both represent the U.S.A. in the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim and have a more-than-excellent shot at standing on the awards podium on Copacabana Beach on August 16th
Courtesy of WOWSA, Sean Ryan, California. Sean Ryan from Tennessee is definitely a medal favorite in the men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The fourth place finisher in the 10 km at the 2015 FINA World Championships is outside the global media's radar, especially with flashier and more well-known competitors taking the marathon
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While many eyes in the competitive swimming world will be interested in the times produced by Michael Phelps (entered in the 100 and 200 freestyle, 100 and 200 butterfly and 200 IM) and Ryan Lochte (100 and 200 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 100 butterfly, 200 and 400 IM) at the United States Olympic Swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Florida, NBC reported [here] that the Associated Press found that viral levels in Rio de Janeiro were 30,000 times higher than is considered alarming in the U.S. and Europe. We find this reporting about the water safety situation at the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It only seemed a matter of time and focus for the USA Swimming to win the FINA Open Water Championships Trophy. For a country with the most number of open water swimming events, largest number of competitive swimmers, thousands of miles of coastlines and lakes, and a history of Olympic pool swimming
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After the two pre-race favorites, Becca Mann and Haley Anderson, qualified earlier in the morning for the women's 10 km 2015 FINA World Championship qualification race in Miromar Lake in Fort Myers, Florida, the men's subsequent race took all types of twists and turns with an unlikely finish. The end
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was not so long ago when American pool swimming coaches believed that open water swimming was detrimental to one's (pool swimming) career. The coaches - from elite Olympic veterans to young age-group newcomers - thought that swimming in oceans, lakes, rivers and seas was the kiss of death for promising
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. "I can adapt to conditions that present themselves," said 2012 Olympian and open water swimming veteran Andrew Gemmell, winner of the 2014 USA Swimming 10 km National Open Water Swimming Championships in Castaic Lake this Friday morning. And that he did as he earned the top spot to represent the USA at the
