Pretty Bollywood-like girls swim in small swimming pools on their apartment balconies.
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.
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Brighton Swimming Club has organised the annual swim every year since 1860.
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Adventurous travellers can swim under the waterfall via a natural swimming hole at the bottom of the falls.
Calves swimming in echelon showed a 28% increase in average swim speed and a 19% increase in distance per stroke.
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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.
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.
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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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After dominating the swim lanes for four Olympics, Phelps retired from competitive swimming.
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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.
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.
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.
Schmitz grew up in North Dakota where skating on frozen water is more popular than swimming, and swam at a Division 2 Metropolitan State College in Denver, which folded its swim program shortly after he graduated.
Nyad's marathon swimming career began in July 1970, when she set the women's world record for the 10-mile swim across Lake Ontario: four hours and 22 minutes.
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