Remember that lady who swam the Atlantic? As it turns out, she did NO SUCH THING.

[Bicoastal]

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-great-Atlantic-Ocean-swimming-hoax?urn=oly,140525">Yahoo Sports: "The great Atlantic Ocean swimming hoax"

"Figge swam only a fraction of the 2,100-mile journey. The rest of the time, she rested on her crew's westward-sailing catamaran. Her spokesman that her total swimming distance has not been calculated yet, but that due to ocean hazards including inclement weather, he estimates she swam about 250 miles."

250 miles?! That wouldn't even cover half the distance between Cape Verde and the coast of Africa! x(

"Swimming 250 miles is nothing to scoff at; but it's not 2,100. To go back to the running-across-America analogy, this would be like driving cross country with a friend, and getting out of the car every ten miles to run one mile for the entire trip. That'd be an impressive feat, but nobody would ever confuse it with running across the United States.

In an interview yesterday with the AP, Figge avoids discussing the validity of her swim and instead says she 'never intended to swim the Atlantic.' That may be so, but she didn't do much to prevent most American news outlets from reporting that she did."

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Reports I heard were clear that she...

spent most of her time "resting" on the boat.

So, then, what's the big deal about her swim? She might as well have done laps in a cruise ship pool.

[SteppingRazor]

2. I don't know that 250 miles in the Atlantic Ocean is the same as a bunch of laps in the pool.

Currents, waves, sharks, mermaids ... it's way more difficult.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Fuckin' mermaids.

Jesus Christ, but they are a pain in the ass.

[JVS]

4. Not half as bad as the terrible monsters though.