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Watch: Winter Swimming Competition in Riga
World Weather Post - Thursday, March 5, 2009, 4:01
From Reuters: ‘ Latvians love a winter swim.”
“Swimmers in Riga take to the icy water in an annual winter swimming competition.
At least 70 people competed in Latvia’s seventh winter swimming competition despite the temperature of minus 2 degrees Celsius and a layer of snow.
Men and women aged 20 to 70 years competed in 25m and 50m races in a hole cut in an ice-covered lake.”
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