Olympics-Marathon Swimming-Elbows and fish: Swimmers navigate ordeals of open water at Tokyo Games

[ASFN Admin]

When athletes of Tokyo 2020's marathon swimming race plunged into the water at Odaiba Marine Park on Thursday, their minds would have been set on closing the race with good results. But Briton Hector Thomas Cheal Pardoe had to deal with the ordeal of an open water swim as he got elbowed in the eye in the closing lap of the race. "I got an elbow in the eye from – not sure who it was but it was in my last lap," a frazzled Pardoe told reporters.

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