Men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim - Wild & Wet

The 25 athletes below are now down at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park,for the men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim...in the driving rain. Stay tuned at NBC Olympics.com to see a great open water battle for the gold.


1 – Allan Do Carmo, Brazil
2 - Jose Francisco Hervas, Spain
3 – Valerio Cleri, Italy
4 – Igor Chervynskiy,Ukraine
5 – Chad Ho, South Africa
6 – Thomas Lurz, Germany
7 – Tong Xin, China
8 – Brian Ryckeman, Belgium
9 – Erwin Maldonado, Venezuela
10 - David Davies, Great Britain
11 - Saleh Mohammad, Syria
12 - Arseniy Lavrentyev, Portugal
13 – Mohamed El Zanaty Metwaly Mez, Egypt
14 – Evgeny Drattsev, Russia
15 - Damian Blaum, Argentina
16 - Csaba Gercsak, Hungary
17 - Maarten van der Weijden, Netherlands
18 - Mark Warkentin, USA
19 - Rostislav Vitek, Czech Republic
20 - Vladimir Dyatchin, Russia
21 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgaria
22 - Luis Escobar, Mexico
23 - Ky Hurst, Australia
24 - Gilles Rondy, France
25 - Gianniotis Spyridon, Greece

Photo of Mark Warkentin by TYR.

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Lasting Images from Beijing - Part 19

Given the anticipated heat, humidity and smog levels in Beijing in August, and the tremendous pace that the swimmers will be maintaining for two hours during the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, it will be very interesting to see what swim suits the open water swimmers will use at the Olympics.

As is well-documented, the new high-tech suits not only compress the body, but they also retain body heat extraordinarily well. In a 100-meter freestyle or a 200-meter butterfly in a pool in a well-ventilated air-conditioned facility, these suits have obvious significant benefits.

In the open water event, a two-hour race under high-humidity, high-heat and high-smog conditions held outdoors, the compression and increased body heat may require some athletes to hydrate more often and in greater amounts. Just a guess.

To date, FINA has approved the following suits:

1. TYR Tracer
2. Speedo LZR
3. blueSeventy Pointzero3
4. blueSeventy 3+
5. blueSeventy Nero 10k (openwater)
6. blueSeventy Nero Comp (pool)
7. XTERRA Velocity .02

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