R.C. sent me this link from the Christian Science Monitor regarding Russia's newest President, Dmitri Medvedev, who swims double workouts and has promised a policy of building new swimming pools among others. [Link]Over at the International Herald Tribune you can read him definitively say it in an interview: "... Russia has problems insofar as swimming is concerned. As someone who is twice a day in a swimming lane, I want to point out that there is a disastrous shortage of swimming pools in this country.
[Question:] So, we should start trying to master the crawl and the breaststroke?
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And play football. We'll have to do something with that! The people are so fond of this game, and we haven't had any great successes in the international arena for a hundred years. We are fed up with waiting! In any case, it's been a long time since I've had such an emotional rush as I did at Luzhniki after our win over the English. ..." [Link]
