MIAMI — Endurance athlete Diana Nyad said she was disappointed and frustrated that her dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida was dashed by the searing pain of Portuguese man o' war stings. Nyad ended her swim Sunday about halfway through, telling The Associated Press the stings temporarily pa...
Inside Diana Nyad's Cuba-Fla. swim strategy Nyad was 28 years old when she first tried to swim across the Florida Straits. That first time, winds knocked her far off course. But this year, the weather, the currents and the wildlife allowed her to power through the miles to reach her g...
America. She became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a sharkcage(笼)to protect her.I have two messages. First, we should never give up. Second,you'er never too old to chase(追逐)your dream, "she said.It was Nyad's fifth time to try to finish the 110-mile ...
On Fifth Try, Diana Nyad Completes Cuba-Florida SwimNancy Klingener, Robert Siegel
In 2013, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba (古巴) to Florida(美国佛罗里达州)without the help of a shark cage, at age 64.Diana was born in New York City but moved to Florida after her graduation from college. She began swimming at the age of 10 and showedt 1 and...
(plan) to swim from Cuba to Florida for a fifth time.(2013年,在她第一次尝试35年后,64岁的戴安娜…(计划)第五次从古巴游到佛罗里达州。)"和"She…(final) became the first person to achieve the close-to-impossible goal.(她……(决赛)成为第一个实现近乎不可能的目标的人。)"可知,她直到2013...
5.答案:A解析:细节判断题。由文章第一段中“Nyad made historyby becoming the first person to swim from Cuba toFlorida without using a shark cage(防鲨笼)"及第四段首句"Other swimmers had made the trip before.."可知,在Nyad是第一个不用防鲨笼从Cuba游到Florida的人,故A项表述错误,选A。
In 2013, at age 64, Diana Nyad accomplished a lifelong dream, becoming the first person to swim unassisted from Cuba to Florida. Upon reaching the shore in Key West, after swimming for 110 miles and 53 hours, Nyad, shaky and sunburned, lips swollen from
Why must Diana Nyad go down to the sea again, to try to swim from Havana to Key West at the age of 60? We may never know. But she does.
“There’s no evidence there was any kind of cheating,” Marathon Swimmers Federation cofounder Evan Morrison told the Times.“From my perspective, according to the current standards of the sport, she did an assisted swim from Cuba to Florida.” Nyad told the newspaper she would accept the ...