“It is not where you start, but where you finish,” is an adage occasionally heard around society.
Perhaps few other aquatic activities demonstrate the truth of this saying like elite open water swimming competitions do.
Photo by Lucie Drolet on left of the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Roberval, Canada as part of the Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean shows how at least a few marathon swimmers are not too concerned about their start from the start pontoon.
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