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And experts predict that women could soon outperform men in long-distance swimming and the marathon.
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Annaleise says on her site that she has swum competitively since she was 4 and that distance swimming has always been her passion.
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Patten, 21, is no stranger to long distance swimming, having come third in the 10km open water swim and making the final of the 800m freestyle in Beijing.
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On a recent outing, Dede spotted a couple of harbor porpoises in the distance, swimming past a water-side mosque.
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It does seem logical that greatly increasing the swimming distance for bears would cause some problems, but is it important?
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That means they can see directly ahead while swimming and can accurately judge distance, particularly to any prey they hunt.
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Think of John Wooden in college basketball, Doc Councilman in swimming, Bill Bowerman in distance running, Bill Walsh in professional football.
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He points out that a team of basketball players can win, at most, one gold for their country, while a swimmer can win two golds for swimming the same stroke the same distance twice: once individually and once as part of a relay team.
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On 15 February this year, 2012 DA14 - an asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool - raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi).
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An asteroid as large as an Olympic swimming pool has raced past the Earth at a distance of just 27, 700km (17, 200mi) - the closest ever predicted for an object of that size.
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Calves swimming in echelon showed a 28% increase in average swim speed and a 19% increase in distance per stroke.
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