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Keeping Cool Rio192
There are many things to manage during the triathlon, but keeping one's core body temperature down is perhaps the most important. As these two leaders, Gwen Jorgensen (USA) and Nicola Spirig (Switzerland) run pass the aid station they dowse themselves with water. Spirig tries to dowse and drink and the same time. This duo has left everyone else far behind, maybe as much as fifteen seconds back.