Disqualified!

By the rules that Diana Nyad and her own team set forth, we can declare her 2013 Cuba-Florida crossing invalid.

The missing manual. Jellyfish courtesy of Lynn Kubasek.

“I honored the rules,” Nyad told David Adams of Reuters a week after she completed her Cuba-Florida crossing (“Questions Linger….”).

But what rules did she honor?

“Trust me,” she said in a Facebook post, “this dream [is] too important to me to have any slight thing outside the fair, just, ethical and agreed-upon rules of our sport” (screenshot here and below).

We still have no idea what Nyad was talking about.
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