A 62-year-old woman who was trying to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage has abandoned her effort. Veteran U.S. long distance swimmer Diana Nyad was pulled from the water on Tuesday, after battling jellyfish stings and a storm that forced her off course. Her crew says she was about half-way through the 166-kilometer swim. Nyad set out from Havana on Saturday in her fourth bid to swim across the Straits of Florida. She had hoped to arrive in ...
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