Tag: Diana Nyad
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Diana Nyad: Xtreme Dream
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows Diana Nyad while she attempts to break a world record, swimming from Cuba to Florida.
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Diana Nyad Speaks Out Against Critics of Historic Swim
Nyad credits powerful current in final stretch of swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida. Here is Chloe McCardel commenting on the case See also NBC Today Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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Diana Nyad fires back against questions over Cuba-Florida swim
See CNN During a conference call with more than a dozen of her peers Tuesday, Nyad was adamant that her swim was by the book. “I swam,” she said. “We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky clean, ethical fashion.” She said she never held onto…
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Team USA swim chair, coach Sid Cassidy questions legitimacy of Diana Nyad’s Cuba to Florida swim
See wptv.com “In my gut I would be very surprised to learn she did the entire swim unassisted,” said Cassidy. Cassidy, who also heads the swimming program at St. Andrews High School, questions a gap charted by Nyad’s crew. It is a roughly seven-mile stretch when Nyad apparently did not stop to eat or drink.…
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Diana Nyad to meet marathoners who doubt her Cuba-to-Florida swim
The media world is exploding in news about how a community of marathon swimmers is now questioning whether Diana Nyad actually accomplished the feat to swim the 110 miles from Cuba to Florida. See for instance philly.com, 10News, Ocala.com, ABC Action News, pnj.com, Las Vegas Guardian Express, The Vancouver Sun, ESPN, cbs12.com, … On social…
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Widow Of Columbus Man Says He Completed Cuba To Florida Swim First
Via the17thman “While the world celebrates marathon swimmer Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a Central Ohio woman said her husband completed the same journey nearly 35 years ago. Faye Poenisch, widow of Walter Poenisch, said her husband completed the same swim at the age of 68. Walter Poenisch began marathon…
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The Onion: Jellyfish falls short of dream to kill Diana Nyad
See story on the Onion Just one day after Diana Nyad completed her record-breaking swim from Cuba to Florida, a local box jellyfish expressed its deep disappointment Tuesday morning at narrowly failing to achieve its lifelong dream of killing the 64-year-old swimmer. “From the time I was just a young ephyra, I’ve dreamt of the…
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Sport Science – Diana Nyad’s Cuba-to-Florida Swim
ESPN Sport Science’s John Brenkus examines the extreme endurance it took for Diana Nyad to swim 110 miles from Havana, Cuba to Key West, Fl in 53 hours.
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Nyad Says Record-Setting Swim Was to be ‘Fully Engaged’ in Life
Diana Nyad has made history as the first person to swim the 110-mile Florida Strait. This was Nyad’s fifth attempt at the feat, and it took her 53 hours to complete. “I wanted this swim, this endeavor not to just be the athletic record,” Nyad, 64, said, “I wanted it to be a lesson for…