But otherwise, the air was as still as the water I had swum in hours earlier.
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Lochte and Phelps have swum on the U.S. team together since the 2004 Games in Athens.
I've never even swum that far in training so it will be completely different.
The longest I've ever swum before is 10km so this is obviously a very different challenge.
Only 20 minutes earlier Franklin had swum in the 200-meter freestyle semifinals, qualifying for Tuesday's final.
The Peruvians' usual prey had swum south, looking for food in colder waters off Chile.
Strel, the Slovenian who has also swum the Yangtze, Mississippi and Danube, says the Nile is on his to-do list.
He leaves the stage soaked, as if he had swum around the arena in his clothes while being chased by barracudas.
Since the waters began to rise, Hayes said, all manner of animals have swum by the trailer, looking for higher ground.
Annaleise says on her site that she has swum competitively since she was 4 and that distance swimming has always been her passion.
British explorer Lewis Gordon Pugh has swum across some of the most challenging stretches of icy water in the world, wearing only a swimming costume, hat and goggles.
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Never mind that her route lay across more than six kilometres of choppy tidal water and Ms Sherr had not swum more than a kilometre in decades.
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Mr Simovic fled to the Serbian border, reportedly by bicycle, where, after he had swum across a drainage channel, he found the Serbian police waiting for him.
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Besides my efforts to raise awareness, I have traveled, gone to the beach (my shirt stays on, though), swum freely in pools and oceans, and even gone ziplining.
Although she had swum regularly for nearly 25 years, Ms Sherr realised she had to improve her efficiency in the water if she was to complete the Hellespont crossing.
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His father died in September 2004, and Manglik attended the funeral, watching his dad's ashes sink into the same stretch of river where the elder Manglik had swum as a boy.
The English Channel has been swum 1, 000 times.
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And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
Mother: Joergen has swum to the shore.
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An MP at just 25, he was an archetypal Victorian hearty: a double blue in rowing and running at Oxford, he had subsequently swum the Niagara rapids twice, climbed the Matterhorn three times and represented his country at fencing in the unofficial 1906 Olympics.
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