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Diana Nyad swam with her crew in the Florida Straits on Sunday. (Christi Barli / AP) Diana Nyad ends swim from Cuba to Florida (updated) By Cindy Boren Updated with further information at 1:32 p.m.; originally filed at 8:09 a.m. A day short of her 63rd birthday, Diana Nyad was pulled from the water today, ending her open-water swim from Cuba to Florida because of jellyfish stings and other physical problems, sharks and storms. Nyad was about halfway through her fourth attempt at the 103-mile swim when it ended at 12:55 a.m. EDT, according to her blog. Her team had previously tweeted that she had left the water at 7:42 a.m. and there was no explanation for the change. Crew member Candace Hogan blogged that Nyad wanted to resume her swim after leaving the water because of a storm. She also had been trailed by sharks, that were shooed away by kayakers who accompanied Nyad. “When can I get back in?” Hogan wrote that Nyad asked. “ ‘I want full transparency that I was out. But I have plenty left in me and I want to go on.’ ” Nyad’s swim lasted 41 hours and 45 minutes, longer than any of her previous efforts, before the danger became simply overwhelming. “We pulled her out of the water,” Steve Munatones, the official observer of the swim and editor of the Daily News of Open Water Swimming, told “Good Morning America.” “The dangers were so great that we couldn’t risk anyone’s life, including her own.” Nyad, according to “GMA,” had severe sunburn and a strained biceps and could barely walk. Nyad and her crew were en route to Key West, where she was expected to receive medical treatment. Nyad had battled through a storm that had taken her off-course and, early Tuesday morning, her website had reported that she was “about 55 miles off the coast of Key West. Right now, they are waiting out the storm. Everyone is safe. Diana is a little chilly, but holding up well.” In each of her swims, Nyad has been stung by jellyfish and, on her first night in the water Saturday, she was stung on her lips, forehead, hands and neck. “She did the Diana Nyad thing and powered through it,” Mark Sollinger, the swimmer’s operations director, told CNN. Nyad’s lips and tongue became increasingly swollen overnight, according to ABC News.

Diana Nyad swam with her crew in the Florida Straits on Sunday. (Christi Barli / AP)


Diana Nyad ends swim from Cuba to Florida (updated)

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Updated with further information at 1:32 p.m.; originally filed at 8:09 a.m.

A day short of her 63rd birthday, Diana Nyad was pulled from the water today, ending her open-water swim from Cuba to Florida because of jellyfish stings and other physical problems, sharks and storms.

Nyad was about halfway through her fourth attempt at the 103-mile swim when it ended at 12:55 a.m. EDT, according to her blog. Her team had previously tweeted that she had left the water at 7:42 a.m. and there was no explanation for the change.

Crew member Candace Hogan blogged that Nyad wanted to resume her swim after leaving the water because of a storm. She also had been trailed by sharks, that were shooed away by kayakers who accompanied Nyad. “When can I get back in?” Hogan wrote that Nyad asked. “ ‘I want full transparency that I was out. But I have plenty left in me and I want to go on.’ ”

Nyad’s swim lasted 41 hours and 45 minutes, longer than any of her previous efforts, before the danger became simply overwhelming.

“We pulled her out of the water,” Steve Munatones, the official observer of the swim and editor of the Daily News of Open Water Swimming, told “Good Morning America.” “The dangers were so great that we couldn’t risk anyone’s life, including her own.”

Nyad, according to “GMA,” had severe sunburn and a strained biceps and could barely walk. Nyad and her crew were en route to Key West, where she was expected to receive medical treatment.

Nyad had battled through a storm that had taken her off-course and, early Tuesday morning, her website had reported that she was “about 55 miles off the coast of Key West. Right now, they are waiting out the storm. Everyone is safe. Diana is a little chilly, but holding up well.”

In each of her swims, Nyad has been stung by jellyfish and, on her first night in the water Saturday, she was stung on her lips, forehead, hands and neck. “She did the Diana Nyad thing and powered through it,” Mark Sollinger, the swimmer’s operations director, told CNN. Nyad’s lips and tongue became increasingly swollen overnight, according to ABC News.

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Sixty Two Year Old Woman Quits Swim From Cuba to Florida American endurance athlete Diana Nyad has abandoned her attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to South Florida due to jellyfish stings. According to a spokesperson, she was pulled from the water last night after being stung by a Portuguese Man O War. She attempted to reenter the water this morning and was stung again. When she was told by doctors that more jellyfish stings could lead to death, she decided to extricate herself from the toxic invertebrate infested cesspool that are the Straits of Florida. Nyad was making her second attempt in as many months at the Cuba-Florida crossing, a lifelong dream that she first tried as a 28-year-old back in 1978, when she swam inside a steel shark cage for about 42 hours before ending the attempt. A cageless attempt this past August fell short 29 hours in when, gasping for breath, Nyad threw in the towel after an 11-hour asthma attack she blamed on a bad reaction to a new medicine. Nyad had completed 49 miles of the trek. No word yet on whether she plans to try again. In the meantime, Nyad’s fate could teach all of us a lesson or two: if at first you don’t succeed, there is no shame in getting up and trying again; and the universe doesn’t want you- or anyone- to go to Florida.

Sixty Two Year Old Woman Quits Swim From Cuba to Florida

American endurance athlete Diana Nyad has abandoned her attempt to swim the 103 miles from Cuba to South Florida due to jellyfish stings. According to a spokesperson, she was pulled from the water last night after being stung by a Portuguese Man O War. She attempted to reenter the water this morning and was stung again. When she was told by doctors that more jellyfish stings could lead to death, she decided to extricate herself from the toxic invertebrate infested cesspool that are the Straits of Florida.

Nyad was making her second attempt in as many months at the Cuba-Florida crossing, a lifelong dream that she first tried as a 28-year-old back in 1978, when she swam inside a steel shark cage for about 42 hours before ending the attempt. A cageless attempt this past August fell short 29 hours in when, gasping for breath, Nyad threw in the towel after an 11-hour asthma attack she blamed on a bad reaction to a new medicine.

Nyad had completed 49 miles of the trek. No word yet on whether she plans to try again. In the meantime, Nyad’s fate could teach all of us a lesson or two: if at first you don’t succeed, there is no shame in getting up and trying again; and the universe doesn’t want you- or anyone- to go to Florida.

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Christi Barli/Florida Keys Newes Bureau/Getty Images Diana Nyad ends her Cuba-to-Florida endurance swim American swimmer Diana Nyad, who has been battling repeated jellylfish stings, has ended her historic Cuba-to-Florida swim. The Associated Press says the next step for the endurance swimmer is not clear. Update at 8:19 a.m. ET: Vaness Linsley, a member of Nyad’s support team in Key West, says Nyad was taken on to a support boat early today, the AP reports. Linsley says they are discussing with Diana as to how they want to proceed. She says Nyad had run into multiple problems including jellyfish stings and storms at sea.

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Diana Nyad ends her Cuba-to-Florida endurance swim

American swimmer Diana Nyad, who has been battling repeated jellylfish stings, has ended her historic Cuba-to-Florida swim.

The Associated Press says the next step for the endurance swimmer is not clear.

Update at 8:19 a.m. ET: Vaness Linsley, a member of Nyad’s support team in Key West, says Nyad was taken on to a support boat early today, the AP reports. Linsley says they are discussing with Diana as to how they want to proceed. She says Nyad had run into multiple problems including jellyfish stings and storms at sea.

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Photo by Christi Barli Diana Nyad is Swimming! The jellyfish may be out to get her, butDiana Nyad isn’t giving up. The long-distance swimmer is now on day two of her quest to swim from Cuba to Florida. Yes, she’s doing it in shark-infested waters without a protective cage. As Nyad said this morning, and was posted on her Twitter feed: “Today is more like swimming. I don’t know what you would call last night…probably surviving.” Follow her progress on her website and on Twitter. Read the full story here.

Photo by Christi Barli

Diana Nyad is Swimming!

The jellyfish may be out to get her, butDiana Nyad isn’t giving up. The long-distance swimmer is now on day two of her quest to swim from Cuba to Florida. Yes, she’s doing it in shark-infested waters without a protective cage. As Nyad said this morning, and was posted on her Twitter feed: “Today is more like swimming. I don’t know what you would call last night…probably surviving.” Follow her progress on her website and on Twitter. Read the full story here.

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Enrique De La Osa/Reuters The long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad plans to try  — again  — to swim from Havana to Key West, Florida. The Perseverance of the Long-Distance Swimmer BEIJING — From the other side of the world, I am following Diana Nyadon Twitter, as the American marathon swimmer makes another attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Ms. Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, first tried the 100-mile-plus swim in 1978. She tried again last summer, twice, but an asthma flareup and jellyfish stings forced her to stop. Earlier this year, I wrote about her — and the growing interest in open-water swimming — in this Global Athlete column. She was also profiled in the New York Times Magazine, and the story has a number of striking photos. Here is a post on her blog with a picture of her in her white terrycloth robe about an hour before diving into the water, and here’s video of her 1 hour 26 minutes into the swim, with the comment that she was “swimming strong.” The greatest dangers facing Ms. Nyad are jellyfish stings and sharks. She is wearing a special protective suit and pantyhose on her face to protect her from the jellyfish. And shark divers are patrolling the waters around her. One of those divers was stung by a jellyfish less than three hours into the swim. Ms. Nyad was also stung, by a flower hat jellyfish, about 5 hours into her swim, but she was still going strong, according to her Facebook and Twitter streams.
Enrique De La Osa/Reuters

The long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad plans to try  — again  — to swim from Havana to Key West, Florida.

The Perseverance of the Long-Distance Swimmer

BEIJING — From the other side of the world, I am following Diana Nyadon Twitter, as the American marathon swimmer makes another attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida.

Ms. Nyad, who turns 63 on Wednesday, first tried the 100-mile-plus swim in 1978. She tried again last summer, twice, but an asthma flareup and jellyfish stings forced her to stop.

Earlier this year, I wrote about her — and the growing interest in open-water swimming — in this Global Athlete column. She was also profiled in the New York Times Magazine, and the story has a number of striking photos.

Here is a post on her blog with a picture of her in her white terrycloth robe about an hour before diving into the water, and here’s video of her 1 hour 26 minutes into the swim, with the comment that she was “swimming strong.”

The greatest dangers facing Ms. Nyad are jellyfish stings and sharks. She is wearing a special protective suit and pantyhose on her face to protect her from the jellyfish. And shark divers are patrolling the waters around her.

One of those divers was stung by a jellyfish less than three hours into the swim. Ms. Nyad was also stung, by a flower hat jellyfish, about 5 hours into her swim, but she was still going strong, according to her Facebook and Twitter streams.

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#sports  #swimming  #long-distance swimmer  #women  #diana nyad 
Tunisia’s gold medallist Oussama Mellouli listens to anthem after the men’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER Mellouli wins open water gold medal

Tunisia’s gold medallist Oussama Mellouli listens to anthem after the men’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER

Mellouli wins open water gold medal

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Oussama Mellouli (Reuters) Mellouli wins Olympic 10k open water swim Tunisian Oussama Mellouli won the gold medal in the men’s 10km marathon swimming race at the London Olympics. German Thomas Lurz was second ahead of Canada’s Richard Weinberger. Australian Ky Hurst was fifth after two laps but faded throughout to finish well off the pace in 20th, one minute and 46.2 seconds behind the winner. Mellouli added the medal to a bronze won in the 1500m freestyle final in the pool last week. He becomes the first athlete to win Olympic gold in the pool and open water swimming after defeating Australian Grant Hackett to win the 1500m title in Beijing four years ago.

Oussama Mellouli (Reuters)

Mellouli wins Olympic 10k open water swim

Tunisian Oussama Mellouli won the gold medal in the men’s 10km marathon swimming race at the London Olympics.

German Thomas Lurz was second ahead of Canada’s Richard Weinberger.

Australian Ky Hurst was fifth after two laps but faded throughout to finish well off the pace in 20th, one minute and 46.2 seconds behind the winner.

Mellouli added the medal to a bronze won in the 1500m freestyle final in the pool last week.

He becomes the first athlete to win Olympic gold in the pool and open water swimming after defeating Australian Grant Hackett to win the 1500m title in Beijing four years ago.




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#10k marathon  #london 2012  #mellouli  #oussama mellouli  #swimming  #tunisia 
Canada’s Richard Weinberger (L) and Tunisia’s Oussama Mellouli compete in the men’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games August 10, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: OLYMPICS SPORT SWIMMING) Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia wins men’s 10km marathon swimming gold medal at Olympic Games LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia won the gold medal of men’s 10km marathon swimming with a time of 1:49:55.1 at London Olympic Games on Friday. The silver medal was taken by Thomas Lurz of Germany at 1:49:58.5. Canadan Richard Weinberger finished third at 1:50:00.3.

Canada’s Richard Weinberger (L) and Tunisia’s Oussama Mellouli compete in the men’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games August 10, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth (BRITAIN - Tags: OLYMPICS SPORT SWIMMING)

Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia wins men’s 10km marathon swimming gold medal at Olympic Games

LONDON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — Oussama Mellouli of Tunisia won the gold medal of men’s 10km marathon swimming with a time of 1:49:55.1 at London Olympic Games on Friday.

The silver medal was taken by Thomas Lurz of Germany at 1:49:58.5. Canadan Richard Weinberger finished third at 1:50:00.3.

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#london 2012  #swimming  #10k marathon  #oussama mellouli  #mellouli  #tunisia 
Hungary’s gold medallist Eva Risztov stands on the podium during the victory ceremony for the women’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold

Hungary’s gold medallist Eva Risztov stands on the podium during the victory ceremony for the women’s 10km marathon swimming at Hyde Park during the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER

Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold

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Hungary’s Eva Risztov celebrates winning the women’s 10km marathon at the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold

Hungary’s Eva Risztov celebrates winning the women’s 10km marathon at the London Olympic Games REUTERS/DOMINIC EBENBICHLER

Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold

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Hungary’s Eva Risztov competes in the women’s 10km marathon at the London Olympic Games(DOMINIC EBENBICHLER, REUTERS / August 9, 2012) Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold medal Eva Risztov of Hungary won the gold medal for the women’s 10 kilometer marathon swim at the London Olympics on Thursday.Haley Anderson of the United States won the silver medal and Martina Grimaldi of Italy the bronze.(Editing by Mark Meadows)

Hungary’s Eva Risztov competes in the women’s 10km marathon at the London Olympic Games(DOMINIC EBENBICHLER, REUTERS / August 9, 2012)

Risztov wins women’s marathon swimming gold medal

Eva Risztov of Hungary won the gold medal for the women’s 10 kilometer marathon swim at the London Olympics on Thursday.

Haley Anderson of the United States won the silver medal and Martina Grimaldi of Italy the bronze.

(Editing by Mark Meadows)

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#london 2012  #swimming  #hungary  #eva risztov  #risztov  #10k marathon 
Phelps and teammate Ryan Lochte walk off the medal podium after the 200m men’s individual medley, which Phelps won with Lochte placing in second. Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 2, 2012

Phelps and teammate Ryan Lochte walk off the medal podium after the 200m men’s individual medley, which Phelps won with Lochte placing in second.

Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 2, 2012

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Phelps and his teammates celebrate after the 4x100m medley victory in what Phelps says will be the last Olympic race of his career.  Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 4, 2012

Phelps and his teammates celebrate after the 4x100m medley victory in what Phelps says will be the last Olympic race of his career. 

Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 4, 2012

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Phelps and his teammates pose with their gold medals for the cameras.  Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 4, 2012

Phelps and his teammates pose with their gold medals for the cameras. 

Credit: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY/Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY SportsDate: August 4, 2012

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(Vollmer, Franklin, Schmitt and Soni celebrate. | Getty) Another gold, another record for U.S. U.S. swimmers Franklin, Soni, Vollmer and Schmitt edge out the Australians to set world record in women’s 4x100 medley relay.

(Vollmer, Franklin, Schmitt and Soni celebrate. | Getty)


Another gold, another record for U.S.

U.S. swimmers Franklin, Soni, Vollmer and Schmitt edge out the Australians to set world record in women’s 4x100 medley relay.

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