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2009-02-11 3:07 PM

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Subject: The Great Atlantic Swimming Hoax

Was this already posted, I remember reading on here earlier in the week that this sounded too good to be true, well...

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax?urn=oly,140525



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WOW! What a crock!

2009-02-11 3:19 PM
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and she was this close...



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Wow, If there isn't a good explanation, WTF was she thinking?
2009-02-11 3:30 PM
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Subject: RE: The Great Atlantic Swimming Hoax
Big difference between 250 and 2500 miles!!  (Not that I could swim 250 miles in 25 days myself.)

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tricrazy - 2009-02-11 3:30 PM

Big difference between 250 and 2500 miles!!

Eh, it's only an order of magnitude.


2009-02-11 3:32 PM
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So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?
2009-02-11 3:34 PM
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jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 4:32 PM

So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?


im going to go with AP until something makes me think otherwise.I think the newspapers blew this thing up alot more than it was supposed too. BUT im not 100% on that


ETA: she never tried to deny it when it first came out either tho

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TheSchwamm - 2009-02-11 1:32 PM

tricrazy - 2009-02-11 3:30 PM

Big difference between 250 and 2500 miles!!

Eh, it's only an order of magnitude.


Yeah, in astronomy that's almost the same thing.
2009-02-11 3:35 PM
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BeginnerMan - 2009-02-11 1:34 PM
jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 4:32 PM So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?
im going to go with AP until something makes me think otherwise.I think the newspapers blew this thing up alot more than it was supposed too. BUT im not 100% on that ETA: she never tried to deny it when it first came out either tho

I agree, it's probably more of a someone caught whiff of the story and ran with it and (hopefully) it got out of the swimmer's control (said totally out of my a$$)

2009-02-11 3:47 PM
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jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 3:32 PM So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?

IMO a bit of both; the AP for rushing to report the story without caring to check if that was even possible and from her and her team because originally it was reported on a article on SI back on Nov 08 that the plan was THAT, to swim 2500 Mi swim from Cape Verde to Barbados. This is (or was) even posted on her Facebook page. To now come out and say it was never the plan, well it makes it sound fishy. If that wasn't the plan why let run an article from SI and even have it cited on her Facebook under news?

Still, it is cool she swam 250 miles on 25 days (not easy at all) but this whole ‘misunderstanding’ sort of makes this story lose its shine at least for me.

2009-02-11 3:47 PM
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BeginnerMan - 2009-02-11 3:34 PM
jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 4:32 PM So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?
im going to go with AP until something makes me think otherwise.I think the newspapers blew this thing up alot more than it was supposed too. BUT im not 100% on that ETA: she never tried to deny it when it first came out either tho

Then again, maybe she did try to correct them and they blew her off.  Wouldn't be the first time an outlet ignored the truth. 

2009-02-11 3:48 PM
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In multiple interviews and in multiple articles (including her Facebook  page) she said she planned to "swim across the Atlantic."

Then in this article they said they "hit a snag" but never bother to mention that she only swam less than 10% of the distance.

So maybe the AP jumped the gun a bit but she didn't exactly correct them.

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JorgeM - 2009-02-11 3:47 PM

jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 3:32 PM So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?

IMO a bit of both; the AP for rushing to report the story without caring to check if that was even possible and from her and her team because originally it was reported on a article on SI back on Nov 08 that the plan was THAT, to swim 2500 Mi swim from Cape Verde to Barbados. This is (or was) even posted on her Facebook page. To now come out and say it was never the plan, well it makes it sound fishy. If that wasn't the plan why let run an article from SI and even have it cited on her Facebook under news?

Still, it is cool she swam 250 miles on 25 days (not easy at all) but this whole ‘misunderstanding’ sort of makes this story lose its shine at least for me.

Didn't know that was the initial plan.  Huh.  I agree with your last statement.

2009-02-11 9:08 PM
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tricrazy - 2009-02-11 3:30 PM Big difference between 250 and 2500 miles!!  (Not that I could swim 250 miles in 25 days myself.)

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2009-02-11 10:40 PM
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What's sad is my local 10pm newscast had video of her in the water and spoke about her amazing feat.

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jazz82482 - 2009-02-11 2:32 PM

So who's to blame, the AP or the swimmer?


IMO, she is to blame. She lied in the article saying something to the effect that "she never intended to swim the whole way." That's a lie. The story was well published up here that she was intending to swim the entire way in a shark-proof cage dragged behind the sailboat. I posted the story from the Aspen Times months ago on this forum somewhere.

ETA:
Here is the article clearly stating she intended to swim the whole thing:
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20081219/NEWS/812199928/1002/NON...

Edited by breckview 2009-02-12 8:34 AM
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