No lane lines, no walls, no perfectly controlled environment. Just athletes, water, and the elements. For years, swimming has unintentionally created a divide between the two disciplines: pool ...

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At the break of dawn, a group of swimmers step into a quiet lake, scanning the open horizon. There are no lane lines, no black lines on the bottom of the pool. Simply the water, wind, and the unknown.

Luckily, I felt safe with buoys to hang on to and my friend guiding me, and somehow, after just that one open-air practice session where I’d swim a few hundred metres then stop at the lake side, I ...