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Sport · Swimming

Open-Water Swimmers Relocate to Leisure Pool Amid Pool Row Irony

Loch too wavy; debate too wavy; lane swimming suddenly attractive.

Indoor swimming pool lanes.

Indoor swimming pool lanes. Photo: Basile Morin, “Indoor pool of spa with open door at Amantaka luxury Resort & Hotel in Luang Prabang Laos”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

PERTH — Wild swimmers who favour Loch Leven stayed indoors on Friday, adding a gentle irony to the city’s leisure-facility arguments: everyone suddenly remembered why heated pools exist.

“I’ll take a lane,” said one. “And central heating.”

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