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KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) – A 49-year-old grandmother and veteran endurance swimmer scuttled her quest early Sunday to become the first woman to swim unaided from Cuba to the Florida Keys, unable to close ...

A day after completing her historic Cuba-to-Florida swim, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad said making the journey was the fulfillment of a "big dream." "All my life, I don't know where it came from, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix's "Nyad" takes viewers on the inside story of how famed marathon swimmer Diane Nyad swam across the Florida Strait — the ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) – Diana Nyad may have finally completed her long-held dream of swimming from Cuba to Florida, but even at an age where many people are thinking about retirement, she isn’t planning ...

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After years of unwavering tenacity, Diana Nyad has completed her quest. At 64 years of age, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective shark cage. That is more than ...

•1978: Walter Poenisch, an Ohio baker, claimed to have made the swim using flippers and a snorkel. Critics say there was insufficient independent documentation to verify his claim. •1997: Australian ...

Netflix's "Nyad" takes viewers on the inside story of how famed marathon swimmer Diane Nyad swam across the Florida Strait — the waters between Cuba and Key West — at age 64. The film, based on Nyad's ...