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A smiling young woman with a gold medal around her neck holds the Australian flag as she stands on a podium.

"It might not sound like a big difference between five, four, three-degree water, but it is."

A smiling woman in a swimming cap swims in a murky dam with a dog.

A female swimmer races down a pool.

"Coming from an Australian summer into freezing conditions, I had to find as many cold bodies of water as I could to train."

A man shovels chunks of ice from an outdoor swimming pool in an alpine area.

"Because when things can go wrong, they can go wrong really quickly and you don't want to be in a situation where that happens."

"But I'm not committing to anything just yet."
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