Sunday, April 08, 2007

Amazon swim

Man ends 9-week, 3,272-mile Amazon swim (AP)

In this photo released by Amazon Swim,  Slovenian Martin Strel celebrates in a Brazilian section of the Amazon river near the city of Ponta de Pedras after finishing swimming the entire Amazon River on Saturday, April 7, 2007. Strel completed his swim of the entire 5,265-kilometer (3,272-mile) Amazon River on Saturday, a 65-day odyssey in which he battled exhaustion and delirium while trying to avoid flesh-eating piranhas and the dreaded bloodsucking toothpick fish. (AP Photo/Amazon Swim)AP - After 3,272 miles of exhaustion, sunburn, delirium and piranhas, a 52-year-old Slovenian successfully completed a swim down the Amazon River Saturday that could set a world record for distance — something he's already done three times before.


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