| IX Swimming Masters World Champs Chisrstchurch, 23- 31 March 2002 |
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| And here is Greg DP with his 5 well diserved medals (2 third places in the world, not bad). Now the rule is: Whoever swims the personal best time on the day, gets a PEPERMINT SLICE from Jeff, our coach. That doesn't mean Greg has had 5 pepermint slices. |
| Wayne and I eating our pepermint slices. Much more important then the third place in the world. |
| In the evenigs we play cards. Greg is an expert in the game "Last card". He kept winning until that fateful moment when he had to pick 29 cards. |
| Dinner out - Dianne who was cooking wonderful meals for us every night has gone home. |
| Going back to hotel in our little van. Wayne, me, Dianne, Greg T, Rob, the others are hiding. |
| Total medal score: 12 From top left: Martin, Kath, Dianne Jo, Rob, Wayne Julien, Treena, Greg DP (5 medals), Greg T Jeff, Jo M (3 medals), Moira (1 medal) and Ivana (3 medals) |
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| Sunday morning was sunny and glorious - great for the Open water 3km swim. Not everyone's cup of tea, some of us chickened out and spent the morning taking the photos of the brave ones. |
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| Greg DP struggling to put 2 pairs of togs on. Do anything to keep warm... |
| Martin -----> |
| Rob -------> |
| Greg T is somewhere in this lot: |
| Greg DP -----> |
| Swimmers were starting in the lots of 40. Each group had different cap colour. Everyone also got a temporarily tattoo on their arms. |
| New Caledonian swimmers had a stile - yellow and blue wigs and stripes. They also had a looks :-) |
| First to finish. Coach is there to hand the blancket. |
| Nothing like a warm embrase of the big gentle friend.... Still it took Greg DP good hour to stop shaking. Water seemd to be closer to 15 then to the official 18 degrees. |