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Austrian Swimmer Trapped As Sand Collapses At Pompano Beach
POMPANO BEACH (CBSMiami) – A member of the Austrian National Swim Team was seriously injured Sunday night during a trip to the beach on the team’s day off. Police say he dug a deep hole in the sand,...
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Diana Nyad Attempting 3rd Cuba To Keys Swim
HAVANA (CBS4) — Endurance athlete Diana Nyad is back in the water for her third attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida and set a world record at the age of 62. Nyad set out from the Hemingway Marina in...
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Diana Nyad Continues Cuba To Florida Swim
FLORIDA STRAITS (CBSMiami) – Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad braved schools of jellyfish Saturday while testing the limits of human endurance on a quest to break her own 3-decade-old distance record, in...
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Search Mounted For Rip Current Victim
FT. PIERCE (CBSMiami) – The Coast Guard is searching by sea and air for a person who went swimming in the Atlantic off the coast near Ft. Pierce Sunday and disappeared. The Coast Guard believed the...
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Swimmer From Cuba Halfway To Florida
FLORIDA STRAITS (CBSMiami/AP) – Endurance swimmer Penny Palfrey muscled past the halfway mark Saturday as she pushed through the Florida Straits, enduring jellyfish stings but otherwise encountering...
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Cuba-to-Fla. Swimmer Plows On After Storm, Jellyfish Stings
HAVANA (CBSMiami/AP) — Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad continues to plow through through stormy seas Monday, trying one more time to complete the marathon journey from Cuba to Florida. She wants to...
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Technicolor Star Esther Williams Dies At 91
LOS ANGELES (CBSMiami/AP) – Esther Williams, the champion swimmer turned Hollywood actress, has died at 91. According to Williams’s longtime publicist Harlan Boll, Williams died early Thursday in her...
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Nyad Attempts Florida Straits Cross One Last Time
KEY WEST (CBSMiami/AP) — After several failed attempts to swim to the Florida Keys from Cuba, endurance athlete Diana Nyad will make yet one more attempt–one she says will be her last. The Florida...
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Nyad Has No Plans Of Slowing Down After Record-Breaking Swim
KEY WEST (CBSMiami/AP) – Fifth times the charm for swimmer Diana Nyad who, at 64, feels as if she’s “truly dead center in the prime” of her life. Sunday morning, crowds congregated at Smathers Beach in...
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Phelps Says Swimming On Hold After DUI Arrest
NEW YORK (AP) – Putting his swimming career on hold after his second DUI arrest, Olympic champion Michael Phelps began a six-week program Sunday that he said “will provide the help I need to better...
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Gold Medalist Michael Phelps Pleads Guilty To DUI
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter BALTIMORE (CBSMiami/AP) – Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps plead guilty Friday to drunken driving. Phelps, 29, was arrested on September 30th after leaving a...
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