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    Just chilling

    Aug 20, 2023 3 minutes

    It’s a Friday in early July, 8.30am, Central Otago’s sky just beginning to lighten, the air temperature at -2°C and every puddle and pond plate-glassed with ice. Down at the water’s edge, competitors, bystanders, helpers, medicos and supporters have gathered in a small canvas village, all clothed in hefty, full-length coats or hooded puffer jackets, wool gloves and tasselled beanies: it’s the ice swimming championships, run by the International Ice Swimming Association Aotearoa NZ, in the 3.5°C chill of St Bathans’ Blue Lake. Thirty-nine

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