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Winter Swimming Festival held in Sichuan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-12-27 10:47

Participants of the first Winter Swimming Festival, held in Pengshan County, Sichuan Province, do warm-up exercise before an Aquathon relay on December 26, 2009. The two-day event is joined by 41 winter swimming teams from cities and counties such as Chengdu, Mianyan, Leshan, with the number of participants exceeding 1,000.[Xinhua]

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