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I fucking hate the way Facebook changed how the site works so that clicking on an image no longer puts it in your browser history. Earlier today I saw a post where the swimmer whose track was shown in this specific image responded to the comments. It was actually quite an amusing interaction and I wish I could go back and share it here.
But also: the swimmer was a she, not a he.
edit:
wait I found it:
Sophie's link: https://sophie-adaptive-athlete.com/2023/01/18/2023-channel-swim-introduction/
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A series of Facebook comments.Claire Fletcher: He didnβt make it. Is he ok or he still swimming? [attached is a close-up of the path, showing that it ends some distance away from the coastline]
Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete: Claire Fletcher I did make it, the GPS transponder was on my pilot boat but the beach was too shallow for it to come in close enough so instead my pilot launched the small RIB boat to accompany me to shore π
Melissa Dupree Haws: Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete wow! The real swimmer here! Iβm so amazed at this feat of athleticism.
Claire Fletcher: Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete omg the actual swimmer is here AND a she not a he! Thatβs amazing! What made you want to do it? Was it a personal goal or for charity? Full respect to you by the way, well done!ππ»ππ»ππ»
Robert Mothersole: Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete so while you're here, if you dont mind me asking.....Why didn't you go straight ?
Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete: Robert Mothersole I did, in the English Channel the tides move up and down rather than across so you get 6 hours up, then 6 hours down. I swam on a Spring tide, which is a bigger tide to start with and I'm not a super fast swimmer (around 2 min 15 per 100m). So i was pushed up the channel for 6 hours, then down the channel for 6 hours twice...so i was swimming forwards but going sideways, if that makes sense?
Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete: Claire Fletcher its a long story...it was a personal, life changing goal, it raised money for charity and that money went to training swimming teachers to become specialist disability swimming teachers. If you want to know more then I write a blog and during the year of my channel training I documented my training each month. This is the first one explaining about me/how I got to where I was at the time - https://sophie-adaptive-athlete.com/.../2023-channel.../ If you scroll through my other blog posts I wrote multiple blogs about my actual swim too π
Claire Fletcher: Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete thatβs truly amazing! Well done you! Should be very proud of yourself! I am going to binge read your blogs now with a cuppa lol
Robert Mothersole: Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete it does make sense, it's a bit different from the local swimming baths, thanks for your answer and congratulations on swimming the Channel. Brilliant achievement π
Sophie Etheridge - Adaptive Athlete: Claire Fletcher hope you enjoyed them and your cuppa!
There's a sports scientist, I've forgotten her name but she wrote a book called Women are Not Small Men. In her book she says that long distance swimming is one sport that women actually outperform men in.
Edit: her name is Stacy Sims