"They used to say Lebanon was the country where you could ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon, " he says.
Slovenia has been eulogised as "Europe in Miniature", and thanks to the slick motorway network that was built over the last decade, you can ski the Alps in the morning and swim in the Adriatic that afternoon.
If you feel inclined to do some shopping, browse the boutiques in Vail Village before heading back to the resort for a soak in the hot tub or a swim in the heated pool.
Dana Vollmer, the first woman in history to swim the 100-meter butterfly in under 56 seconds took Gold at the London Olympics.
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Now in its third year, the swim in Cumbria raises money for charities and provides a boost to the local economy.
Vollmer made regular trips to Australia to train in the ocean and swim with dolphins, which made racing in the flat water of an Olympic pool feel far simpler.
Last year, she completed five of the seven stages in the 8 Bridges Swim but stopped short in a couple of the stages because of the heat and shoulder pain.
Frederiksen put in a storming swim in the morning heat of her event to knock almost half a second off her previous European record.
The hotel manager told me that tourists did swim in the lake, but he had not heard of anyone trying to swim across it before.
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He won an academic scholarship to the University of Florida, in Gainesville, where he joined the swim team and earned a degree in engineering, a subject that interested him only insofar as it illuminated the mechanics of, say, how to level a structural foundation or gut-renovate a house.
Patten, 21, is no stranger to long distance swimming, having come third in the 10km open water swim and making the final of the 800m freestyle in Beijing.
Brian figured that if he could solve the technology and logistics problems required to anchor a fish farm 10 or 20 miles offshore, where swift currents carry away and disperse the waste produced by concentrated fish stocks, it would allow the farmed fish to swim in the same fresh water as their wild cousins-the best of both worlds.
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Brits are favored in the 10-kilometer swim and the Brownlee brothers are the men to beat in the triathlon.
The welcoming pool in which the narcotics tycoons swim must be drained dry.
He learned to pace himself in each leg, how to swim in the wake of a competitor, how to locate his endurance zone on his aerodynamic time-trial bike.
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Sun Yang sealed a place in China's Olympic history with an impressive swim in the 400m freestyle final that was only 0.07 seconds off the world record to take gold.
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If he makes it through the preliminaries, he'll have to swim in the finals of two events on Thursday, Aug. 2 that are just 30 minutes apart: The 200-meter backstroke and the 200-meter individual medley.
On Christmas Day swimmers at Porthcawl also took part in the 37th annual swim.
Ore crushers and stockpiles the size of a respectable range of hills all swim in the tropical heat.
The DNR estimates 56 million pounds of Asian carp swim in the Illinois.
"In many villages they began to realize that a simple swim in the river caused rashes, " said Ianukula Kaiabisuia, coordinator of Xingu Park.
In the spring they swim north from the Gulf of Mexico along the Gulf Stream, about 60 miles offshore, to the nutrient-rich waters of the Northeast and Canada.
Order up a margarita (or three) beneath the thatched roof of Flor de Noche before a swim in the tri-level infinity pool, where two's company, but three is most certainly not a crowd.
Following Aaron's death his family put two life rings at the weir with another one provided by the CRT, alongside a sign warning people not to swim in the river.
Hitting delete results in the spam taking a deadly swim in shark infested waters.
This is one of the richest and most beautiful ecosystems on the planet, and for centuries its residents have enjoyed and made a living off the fish that swim in these waters and the wildlife that inhabit these shores.
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Guyana is one of the last existing strongholds for these native South American animals, and visitors can even swim in the river with them.
The species is endangered in the US (hundreds of thousands used to swim up the Penobscot and Connecticut Rivers before dams were put in their way).
But beyond all this mess, which is the water in which small business people swim, the PPACA stands alone as a particularly large barrier to hiring.
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