Tag: Diana Nyad
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Just Keep Swimming
The sport of long-distance open-ocean swimming is like no other. RAAM riders take periodic motor home stops for hot showers and meals. Tour de France riders get massaged in hotels between stages. Even Mount Everest climbers stop and rest in tents, sometimes for days. Ms. Nyad’s sport allows none of this. In her four attempts…
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From Cuba To Florida: Diana Nyad’s Final Attempt At A Record-Breaking Swim
When long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad turned 60, she was determined to complete her life’s biggest challenge. “In the context of your phrase, ‘my big break,’ when I turned 60, there was a true, existential anxiety about how much time is left,” Nyad says. “My mom had just died; she was 82. And at age 60,…
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Diana Nyad turns her record swim into a 1-woman stage show in Florida
Diana Nyad, who made history as the first person to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage, isn’t scared of wading into another challenge — theater. The 65-year-old endurance swimmer is performing “Onward! The Diana Nyad Story,” a one-woman show in Key West, Florida, near the spot where in 2013 she achieved her…
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Diana Nyad – Dare to Pursue | 2015 Convening Leaders
For ten years (1969-1979), Diana Nyad was known as the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. In 1979, she stroked the then-longest swim in history, making the 102.5-mile journey from the island of Bimini (Bahamas) to Florida. At the age of 64, in her fifth and final attempt, Diana Nyad successfully fulfilled her lifelong dream…
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Diana Nyad pulling a Forest Gump: ‘I’m Gonna Walk Across USA’
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…
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Citing sex abuse cases, swimmers protest Hall of Fame induction
Read greenbaypressgazette.com A group of 19 women who say they were sexually abused by U.S. swim coaches have asked the International Swimming Hall of Fame to rescind the June 14 induction of USA Swimming executive director Chuck Wielgus. The group, which includes long distance swimmer Diana Nyad, along with other current or former swimmers, coaches, family…
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Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up
See TED In the pitch-black night, stung by jellyfish, choking on salt water, singing to herself, hallucinating … Diana Nyad just kept on swimming. And that’s how she finally achieved her lifetime goal as an athlete: an extreme 100-mile swim from Cuba to Florida — at age 64. Hear her story. [ted id=1896 lang=en]
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Diana Nyad talks about new purpose battling child abuse
See wfaa.com In 2013, on her fifth attempt and at age 64, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad successfully fulfilled her lifelong dream of completing the 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida. She stopped by News 8 Wednesday as she came through Dallas to serve as keynote speaker for the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center’s 7th annual luncheon.…
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How Diana Nyad Swam from Cuba to Florida
See Motherboard Before launching into any sport, it’s important to know three things: the rules, the stakes, and when to quit. In the case of Diana Nyad, the resolute 64-year-old long-distance swimmer, acknowledging two out of three ain’t bad. On August 31st, 2013, Nyad jumped into the shark-friendly waters of Cuba and swam some 110-odd…