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The Manhattan Project, part 1: Diana Nyad At The New Yorker Festival

Diana Nyad’s transparent and greedy Manhattan lie — “I was the first woman to swim around Manhattan Island” — gives us the key to understanding all of her deceptions.

Many tiny, fearless fish swimming around a large jellyfish.
Fearless fish and jelly. Photo by Richard Wonka via Shutterstock

Diana Nyad returned to Manhattan on Saturday for the New Yorker Festival’s Fearless!: Life on the Edge. The panel — arranged by a highly respected magazine, occurring on the island of Nyad’s most obvious lie, and consisting of three genuine adventurers and one fraud — provided an indicator of the success of Nyad’s deceit. On stage, she told untruths she had parroted in other venues, giving no hint she’d been deceiving people for decades. Few in the audience knew they had the honor of listening to one of sports’ greatest liars.
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