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She talks to Olympians and to open-water champions like Lynne Cox to find out why they live to swim, why swimming is man's most sensuous sport (because skin is his largest sensory organ) and why it keeps your arteries elastic, your joints supple, is good for your heart as well as your brain, and offers more than a cursory help in the fight against ageing.
ECONOMIST: Lynn Sherr��s new book offers all the skinny on dipping
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To narrow the racial gap in swimming, the L.A.-based Amateur Athletic Foundation gives grants to swim facilities in Southern California.
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On three occasions, he fell into the swimming pool and had to be rescued because sulcatas can't swim.
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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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She is a fixture of the open-water swimming scene of New York City and currently holds the title of fastest woman to swim around Manhattan at 5 hours, 44 minutes.
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But Adlington produced a second peerless swim in as many days to win the 400m freestyle , with Jazz Carlin swimming to bronze behind her for Wales.
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She visits the Brain Science Lab at Indiana University, which studies the hard- swimming members of the US Masters: men and women who swim 3, 500-5, 000 metres three to five times a week, sometimes for decades on end.
ECONOMIST: Lynn Sherr��s new book offers all the skinny on dipping