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Best of 2011 - The Swim

Written by: Timothy Carlson
Added: Thu Dec 29 2011
Last Modified: Fri Dec 30 2011

In 2011, Diana Nyad made a valiant attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida before she was halted by jellyfish stings. Ryan Lochte hung a few defeats on the once invincible Michael Phelps. And every single triathlete who came to the sport's watery start line to brave lake and ocean was also a hero. Let us now praise the sport's fish!

All photographs © Timothy Carlson

  

  

  

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