The Truth About Diana Nyad
At a brief presentation last May, Diana Nyad corrected a few of her favorite lies. Not all of them, but enough to create a stir at the Annex.
1968 was not a good year for Diana Nyad.
Her beloved high school coach, Jack Nelson, had promised her (or so she thought) that her zeal would win her an Olympic medal. With the Mexico City games on the horizon, Nyad scrambled to make the trials. But no matter how hard she swam, she couldn’t swim fast enough to qualify. And so ended the first of her aquatic dreams.
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Last May, Diana Nyad spoke at Kenshoo’s K8 East conference in Brooklyn. Paradoxically, she gave the “Knowledge is Power” keynote address. And, as usual, she made a lot of it up, throwing in some shiny new morsels of mendacity to keep the Annex happy.
(Update 19 Mar 2025: Kenshoo overhauled their website after I published this. Most or all of the original pages have disappeared. Kenshoo also removed its video of Nyad’s presentation from YouTube. I have pointed the Kenshoo links to archived pages and clips.)
1968 was not a good year for Diana Nyad.
Her beloved high school coach, Jack Nelson, had promised her (or so she thought) that her zeal would win her an Olympic medal. With the Mexico City games on the horizon, Nyad scrambled to make the trials. But no matter how hard she swam, she couldn’t swim fast enough to qualify. And so ended the first of her aquatic dreams.
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