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Related: About this forumSomething really ticks me off at the coverage of Diana Nyad's accomplishments.
Of course, if I wrote a thread about what the media does RIGHT, it may well be a 30 words or less thread.
IMHO, Diana Nyad is one of the greatest athletes ever in any sport. She accomplished a feat at age 64 that surpassed remarkable. At the same time that I've been saying that the calandar is catching up to Roger Federer, my favorite male tennis player, at the age of 32 (half Diana's age).
Today, I woke up to see stories on the web, probably written by 300+ pound "journalists" who were eating jelly doughnuts as they typed, stating that according to Diana Nyad's own swim timer, she isn't swimming as fast as she did in the 1970s. Shit!
Big frickin' whoop! Does freakin' ANYBODY do anything as fast as we did in the 1970s? I sure as hell don't!
Are there really sports writers out there so determined to shit all over something great that they stoop to saying that a great 64 year old swimmer is a little slower than she was as a great late 20s/early 30s swimmer? I call BULLSHIT!
If there is something that an athlete does wrong, than go git'em! Slowing down a little after 40 years? PUH-LEEZ!
If this is in the wrong forum, I apologize, but I seem to remember Diana Nyad coming out a few years ago. If I'm mistaken, than at least I'm sharing this in one of my favorite places in DU!
That's my 2 cents, and quite possibly overpriced at that!
PEACE!
juajen
(8,515 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...I doubt that I've swum the distance between Cuba and Florida in my entire life, even without a bunch of sharks who could bite my ass off in my immediate vicinity!
Even when I was a dipshit homophobic college student in the 70s with the moronic notion that any gay guy was after my silly little sausage, I had enormous respect for Diana Nyad!
PEACE!
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)not really.....
Anyone know the old joke that ends with...Lets walk down and f*ck them all.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...but he said "get" them all. I was about 14 at the time. I told my 13yo son the same way. It's a funny parable about a funny "pair a bulls!"
peace!
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Following some of the threads here and elsewhere concerning this amazing feat, I learned quite quickly that there was no shortage of individuals eager to diminish and belittle Nyad's acomplishment. One of the greatest individual athletic performances in sports history credited to a WOMAN? And an older woman at that! Can't have that, now.
Don't know if Nyad is gay but I can imagine that would really send the doughnut eaters over the edge.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)NEVER!...hay, pass me a glazed jelly, will'ya?
peace!
FreeState
(10,572 posts)(not that it matters, but she is a great example to our community).
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)Hasn't been mentioned in the news reports so I wasn't sure. Of course, that will be another reason she'll be ignored by sponsors who would normally be falling all over themselves to sign her up. First, she's a woman; second, she's an older woman; third, she's a lesbian. Where advertising is concerned that's three strikes and you're out.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)... also think that Diana Nyad doesn't give a rat's patoot about them.
PEACE!
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I'm just being mad for her and for all women champions who lose out on advertizing dollars.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)PEACE!
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...I think she's a great example for everybody!
PEACE!
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)but I figured most people would just ignore it.
Diana Nyad is an inspiration to me! I just got chills when I heard her say, "Never give up!" She did an interview with Robin Roberts on Good Morning America yesterday and it just reaffirmed my admiration for her. Even though I'm a gay man, I swear I am in love with this woman. She is truly a hero!
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)She IS a hero on SO many levels.
peace!
Ms. Toad
(34,076 posts)until I developed vertigo about a year ago, I was swimming about 100 miles a year, in 1+ mile chunks.
I am around a decade younger than Diana, and it takes me about 45 minutes to swim a mile. So - if I swam my year's worth back to back it would still take me 82.5 hours. I swim faster than I did in the 70s - and when I showed my stats to folks who were actually on the swim team in the 70s, they were impressed.
Swimming even one mile in 29 minutes is a good clip, let alone 110 of them.
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)I have so danged much arthritis that don't think I even breathe as fast as I did then! I'm 8 and I used to play tennis and run (not jog) 7 mile day.
MANY kudos to you for improving on your time!
PEACE!