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Imperial MBA Student Swims The English Channel — For A Good Cause
Poets & Quants via Yahoo Finance· 10 months agoJack Blyzinskyj: “For as long as I can remember, swimming has given me purpose.” When he called four...
Free Press Flashback: Meet the women who swam 24 miles across Lake St. Clair in 1927
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Detroit Women’s Aquatic Club made heroes and headlines on Aug. 13, 1927, when it hosted a...
Connecticut native Marcy MacDonald becomes the first person to swim from England to Belgium
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMarcy MacDonald had already been swimming for 26 hours across the English Channel where the Strait of Dover converges with the North Sea. She was on her way from England to Belgium when she ...
Swimmer aims to be first British woman to solo cross ‘most dangerous’ channels
Press Association News via AOL· 8 months agoA Dover woman is vying to become the first British female to solo swim the seven “most dangerous”...
British endurance athlete finishes 315-mile Hudson swim for river health
Press Association News via AOL· 8 months agoEndurance athlete Lewis Pugh has completed a 315-mile swim down the Hudson River in New York to show...
Marathon swim from Isles of Shoals to Rye Beach comes 50 years after oil refinery fight
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 9 months agoRYE — A 6.5-mile event featuring 20 expert swimmers going from the Isles of Shoals to Rye Beach on...
Rescuers ‘too late’ to save Channel migrants after French charity receives distress call
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoQuestions have been raised over the speed of rescue response to the latest English Channel drowning...
Diana Nyad’s Most Controversial Swim Inspired the New Netflix Movie ‘Nyad’
Biography via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAt age 64, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective...
10 best UK walking routes and scenic hikes for an active adventure
The Independent US via AOL· 2 months agoThe UK possesses a wealth of variety in its cities, towns and natural landscapes, all of which have...
7 athletes who swam across Lake Michigan: From Ted Erikson to Elizabeth Fry
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSwimmers have attempted to cross Lake Michigan for years, and — for a while — some believed that it simply couldn’t be done. As an incentive to try and to get people excited about fitness, a ...