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Jerrie Roberts: why I swim
73-year-old Jerrie holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest person to swim an ice mile
How long have you been open water swimming?
I have always had an affinity with the sea. In my 20s I sailed the Atlantic in a trimaran with no engine and cruised around the Caribbean for five years.
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