Inspired by Mao, Wuhan river swimmers ‘reborn’ after virus lockdown | AFP | Swimmer's Daily

Even in winter temperatures of about 15 degrees Celsius (60F), a steady flow of hardy men and women wade into the brown waters of the Yangtze River in Wuhan and swim into the distance. The tradition pre-dates Mao, but it was embedded in Wuhan’s consciousness in 1966 when the then-73-year-old founder of communist China launched [...]