Downstream

(Jeff_L) #1

get sick if the river is low and
there is stale water, there are
no problems after heavy rain,
and it will be a quicker race!
We’re competent swimmers,
there is no reason for anyone
to get hurt.’ But there are
more regulations now ‘since
Health & Safety reared its
head’. In the 1960s, as with
river races in Reading,
competitors ‘just dived off
and swam, we were counted
as we set off and the number

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