The article says that the race organizers are disputing the number of rescues being reported.
I'm not trying to start a flame war, just passing along the news as it is reported.
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from the UK's The Independent :
"... 14 deaths among almost one million ... 13 of the 14 deaths occurred during ... the swim phase ..."
To put this in perspective, back of the envelope calculations indicate that in a typical population of 1,000,000 people, you will have about 40 people die every day.
Of course, in a typical population of 1,000,000 you probably have about 980,000 for whom a sprint tri is physically way above anything they could consider doing.
from the UK's The Independent :
"... 14 deaths among almost one million ... 13 of the 14 deaths occurred during ... the swim phase ..."
To put this in perspective, back of the envelope calculations indicate that in a typical population of 1,000,000 people, you will have about 40 people die every day.
Of course, in a typical population of 1,000,000 you probably have about 980,000 for whom a sprint tri is physically way above anything they could consider doing.
