At 67 years old, grandmother Margot Anderson could be enjoying the quiet retired life at home in England.
Instead, she works a string of part-time jobs so she can afford to be standing at the foot of a pale blue glacier in Patagonia, about to jump into near-freezing water with 53 other extreme swimmers from around the world.
“If this is the last thing I do in life, I’ll go with fullness,” says Anderson, before plunging into the frigid water off Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier.
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At the FINA/Mastbank Swimming World Cup leg in Dubai today, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta set a new 200 meter short course breaststroke world record, clocking 2:00.48 where his own world record from the Istanbul 2009 World Short Course Championships was 2:00.67. See the result list here.
Featured image of Gyurta at the Bergen Swim Festival 2014 courtesy of Kjell Eirik Irgens Henanger
At the FINA/Mastbank Swimming World Cup leg in Dubai today, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu took another good chunk of her 200 individual medley short course world record, clocking 2:02.13 where her record from the Doha leg a few days ago was 2:02.61. See the result list here.
Image courtesy of Doha Stadium Plus Qatar, CC BY 2.0
On the morning before he was to report to the pool, Attis Clopton sat in a storefront breakfast spot near his Brooklyn apartment munching a glazed doughnut. He was worrying. It was a glorious day, blue sky and hot. The kind when they say the only sensible place to be is in the water.
But, please, let’s not go there.
As he imagined what lay ahead, his hands got clammy. He needed to think about something else — anything else.
Anything but water.
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Lewis Pugh, the UN Patron of the Oceans and renowned endurance swimmer, will complete the final leg of his Seven Seas Campaign by swimming up the Thames.
Nicknamed the Human Polar Bear for his ability to swim long distances in freezing waters, Lewis is swimming from Southend to Gravesend before swimming to the Thames Barrier.
He’s the first man to swim at the North Pole and over the last four weeks has completed swims in each of the Seven Seas, the Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Black, Red, Arabian and the North Sea.
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With good help from boyfriend Magnini
Olympic Gold Medal winning American swimmer Tyler Clary tested a V8 Supercar at the V8 Supercars Official Driving Experience on Australia’s Gold Coast today as part of his development towards a serious motorsport career.
Clary has been on the Gold Coast for the last two weeks competing at the Hancock Prospecting Pan-Pacific Championships where he won his Olympic Gold Medal event – the 200m backstroke – and added a silver and bronze medal to his Pan-Pacs haul.
Despite having never driven a right hand drive car before today, Clary showed impressive speed around the 2.1km circuit at Norwell, which doubles as the V8 Supercars Official Driving Experience and the Performance Driving Centre.
“A couple of times there I reached for the gear shift with my right hand and banged the door,” Clary laughed. “The V8 Supercar is a lot bigger and heavier than what I’m used to driving too. I’m happy with the times I layed down for my first opportunity in this type of car.”
She already swam from Cuba to Florida and now super athlete Diana Nyad tells TMZ Sports she has brand new goal, she wants to pull a Forrest Gump and trek across the USA by foot! Nyad was out in L.A. on Monday where she’s getting ready to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of her historic swim, when she told TMZ all about her big plans. Nyad said “I just decided that two years from now, I’m going to walk across America and get 1 million people to do it with me!” And what’s her motivation? Diana says she wants to whip America’s fat butts into shape!
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