swimming the channel

Yahoo! Sports: Gutsy mermaid to tackle English Channel to become first female NYC native to complete open swimming Triple Crown Gutsy mermaid to tackle English Channel to become first female NYC native to complete open swimming Triple Crown Maya Merhige swam the English Channel in 11 hours and 39 minutes on Saturday, July 13 Chris Merhige and Kelly Gentry for Swim Across America Maya Merhige made quite a splash with her latest swimming ... MSN: First Blind Woman to Swim English Channel Proves ‘Nothing Is Impossible’ A Paralympic gold medallist became the first blind woman to swim across the English Channel – and says that “nothing is impossible.” Melanie Barratt, 49, took on the challenge after falling in love ...

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She’s taking home the mermaid crown. A fearless Gotham native is set to stroke across the English Channel’s 21 miles of treacherous waters this week — becoming the first woman from the Big Apple to ... When Marian Cardwell ’11 learned that she would spend her year as an English teaching assistant in Lille, France, she began dreaming of a swim—a very long swim. Lille is near the English Channel, a ...