Hurling oranges, swimming in sea-foam and more of the week’s best photos
See 11 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.
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Swimming’s ‘Race of the Century’ set to light up Paris with opening night splash
No one knows what form anyone's in. For 400 I feel like out of all my races I know how to race it the best." What the trio have in common is they all swim fast. Very fast. At different times Ledecky, ...
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From heats to the final
Each swimming event is broken up into rounds with the purpose of trimming the field of competitors (which can sometimes number upwards of 90+ for individual events) down to a final race of eight.