Posted on 09/01/2014 9:50:59 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...Diana Nyad - the first to swim across the Florida Straits without a shark cage - was presented with Cuba’s Order of Sporting Merit on Saturday, the first American athlete to receive the award.
Nyad, after four failed attempts, successfully swam from Cuba to Key West Florida in September 2013 without a shark cage, in a 53-hour feat.
Speaking in Spanish, the 65-year-old said the Cuban award was “the most precious honour of my whole life.”
(Excerpt) Read more at gulf-times.com ...
Yup. That and a buck ninety five.............
Unless it’s a “Major Award”....
Blah. She was on that Carol Alt show yesterday, praising herself to the skies. Enough of her already!
That swim was very likely faked for commie propaganda
That woman is a lifelong communist
Imagine all the people who tried to escape Cuba and did not live to get the award of freedom.
Isn’t she the woman who “swims on the other side of the lake?”
Commie or no, straight or otherwise, that’s still a hell of a swim. I think I’ll pass on the attempt and take the ALS ice bucket challenge instead!
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