2023-10-22 14:44:23
With a spatula
October 22 2023, 8:44 am
Annette Bening plays Diana Nyad in the Netflix adaptation.
Sharks, jellyfish stings, tropical storms, navigation problems, and physical exhaustion are the kinds of problems that fortunately don’t worry the average person during a normal work day.
By BBC Mundo
But for retired athlete Diana Nyad, these were the challenges she faced during the several attempts she made, in her early 60s, to become the first person to swim the 177 km from Cuba to Florida without the use of a cage. protective.
Most people, including Nyad herself, thought she had retired from competitive swimming at age 30.
But more than three decades later, he decided to pursue the goal that had eluded him when he was 20 years old.
Having attempted the challenge in 1979, since 2011 Nyad has made four more attempts to cross the water, finally realizing her dream in 2013.
Her story has now been adapted to the screen by Netflix, and actress Annette Bening earned an Oscar nomination for playing the swimmer, who had the support of her friend and coach Bonnie Stoll.
“Every time you go swimming, of course you think she’s going to make it,” the real Stoll tells BBC News.
“And it’s a bummer when it doesn’t happen. Especially for her, because that means another year of training, because she wasn’t going to give up, no matter what.”
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