Diana Nyad was yesterday evening stung in the face by some kind of presumed jellyfish, and had to go out of the water for some hours to be treated by doctors. Her face and area the area around her eyes was affected, but she’s back in the water, swim switching to a “staged swim”, meaning that it may occur in stages. She will still be able to set a world record, now in the staged swim category, rather than as a non-stop swim. Follow her progress here on diananyad.com.
What is this, anno 1972 ? Important message anyhow.
25-year-old Ambika Kumari was allegedly pushed off a bridge by her husband, a relative and a friend, into the Ganga in Bihar, but managed to battle about 12 hours through the night against swirling waters, eventually being found unconscious on the river bank 60 km downstream. They had married one-and-a-half years ago, but he’d only told his mother about it, and now it seems he tried to get rid of her. Guess/hope he’s in a lot more trouble now, than having a wife too many. Read hindustantimes.com
It has been a challenging night and for Diana Nyad, now some 57000 strokes and well into the next day of swimming from Cuba to USA, she hit a Portuguese Man o’ War, suffered from multiple stings and had to tread water for half an hour, rehydrate and change suit. Her stroke pace dropped from the usual 52-55 to 48, but has since picked up again and is gaining strength according to her Facebook page and Twitter. Via Forbes.
“I remained trapped because I was so ineffective in my life outside the pool,” Huegill revealed in the book. “The usual cycles kicked in again, plenty of alcohol and party drugs. I was arriving home from clubbing at 4am, the hour I used to be getting up and training. I now had debt collectors to deal with.
“My weight was a burden. I’d returned home 45kg heavier than my 90kg swimming weight, with a waist measurement of 111cm.
” I’d beat myself up because I wasn’t achieving anything, then I’d write myself off to try to block those depressive thoughts, then I’d have to deal with the consequences of writing myself off spending money I didn’t have, behaving badly, letting people down and burning bridges with friends.
“I was in a downward spiral and powerless to do anything about it.”
Read more here on the Daily Telegraph
Water gun powered, absolutely excellent ! :-) Via Buzzfeed.
Interesting video here about Swedish butterfly-ace Ida Marko-Varga’s one kick per cycle gliding butterfly style, that has seen her drop 9 seconds of her personal best since started working on it, and enabled her to swim a lot more butterfly in practice. She placed 16th at this year’s World Championships, gunning for a lane in the final in London. Via Sander Englund Smørdal on Google+
Diana Nyad is back in the water as of 6:05:08 pm Havana time, going for the 200,000 strokes to Key West. See diananyad.com.
Ouch, Sun Yang managed a 3:40.29 in the 400 meter free at the Chinese long course championships this evening, breaking Zhang Lin’s Asian record of 3:41.35 from the 2009 Rome super suit World Championships. This is the 3rd fastest 400 in history, only behind Paul Biedermann’s 3:40.07 from Rome 2009, and Ian Thorpe’s 3:40.08 from the Commonwealth Games. Sun Yang ‘only’ managed a 3:43.24 at the World Championships in Shanghai in July, behind Tae-Hwan Park’s 3:42.04. Must have been a good holiday. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.
Here is SwimmingWorld Magazine’s rundown of his accomplishment today and in the 200 yesterday:
Here is his also impressive 1:45.53 win in the 200 freestyle yesterday, courtesy of CCTV:
