Dynoswim 32 years later, Diana Nyad to try Cuba-Florida Keys swim again

32 years later, Diana Nyad to try Cuba-Florida Keys swim again

posted September 2, 2010 @ 1:29 PM | Open Water Swimming category

~By Michelle Kaufman

The plan was a world-record 103-mile swim in roughly 60 hours. Mother Nature got in the way. But Nyad, a successful marathon swimmer, wants to keep going. She calls it her "personal Olympics," says nothing but a hurricane could stop her. She finally concedes and aborts her dream. Her heart sinks as her friends lift her into the boat and applaud. Thirty-two years later, Nyad, who recently turned 61, will attempt to conquer the swim that defeated her.

Read on at the Miami Herald

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