There’s something for everyone at the cold water swimming championships at the lido in Tooting, south Lond: medals for the fastest, an award for the best hat and a mass jump-in in aid of Crisis, the homelessness charityA day of cold blue therapy. Where volunteer marshals lined up more than 700 competitors for 114 races at intervals timed to the second. “Get in the water, get your shoulders under,” they said briskly and everyone did, briskly. Making a splash: cold water swimming
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