100
meter freestyle swimming in a nice, clean, piranha-free swimming pool?
That's cute, Summer Olympics! REAL men swim at the brutal Amazon Olympics,
where surviving the event itself is its own reward:
Poised on the starting blocks at the Olympics, the 15 swimmers had
good reason to feel apprehensive. But the cause of their nervousness
was not the race itself – it was the piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles
lurking in the turbid waters below. [...]
The swimming events all take place in the murky waters of the Loretoyaco
river, a tributary of the Amazon. Waiting for her 100m freestyle race,
Lina Castro, a 20-year-old member of the Tikun indigenous community,
gazed into the water and considered the hazards. "When the race
is about to start I need to be calm and not think about all the things
that live in the river," she said.
Toby Muse of The Guardian reports:
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