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Cumbria Tourism is stressing that the Lake District region has many other activities and events on offer this weekend after the postponement of the British Gas Great North Swim due to an outbreak of blue-green algae at Windermere.
Olympic medalist and Christie patient Steve Parry is taking part in the inaugural British Gas Great Salford Swim in aid of The Christie, the leading cancer centre where he was treated.
Free Powerade training swim
Supermodel and British Gas ambassador Jodie Kidd has really caught the swimming bug.
Jodie, a well known personality in the UK and further afield following her TV appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and Top Gear, hadn’t done any outdoor swimming until she signed up for the 2010 British Gas Great London Swim.
Five-time Olympian and Strictly Come Dancing star Mark Foster was joined by swimmers in wetsuits as they gathered on one of Glasgow’s busiest streets to mark the launch of the British Gas Great Scottish Swim.
The British Gas Great Swim Series is becoming part of a world network of big outdoor swimming events.
Jodie, well known for her TV appearances on Strictly Come Dancing and Top Gear, took on the one-mile open water challenge along with 5,000 other swimmers at the Royal Victoria Dock near the ExCel centre in London’s East End.
The star-studded British Gas Great London Swim has attracted a bumper field of 5,000 swimmers – an amazing five times last year’s inaugural entry.
British world champion Kerri-Anne Payne won the elite women’s race in spectacular style at the British Gas Great East Swim yesterday (Saturday 19 June).
British 2012 Olympics medal hopeful Keri-Anne Payne gave youngsters from an Ipswich community special school a swimming master class ahead of the British Gas Great East Swim today (Friday, 18 June, 2010).