The Truth About Diana Nyad
The final entry examining Diana Nyad’s bizarre response to being caught in her Manhattan lie.
After being recognized as the first woman to swim around Manhattan in both highly regarded press and swimming circles...
Diana, we’ve been through this already. It never happened.
Continue reading “Diana’s GREAT Surprise, part 3: Nyad Abdicates The Throne . . . For Now”
The first of three entries examining Diana Nyad’s bizarre response to being caught in her Manhattan lie.
In 2011, CNN caught Diana Nyad lying about being the first woman to swim around Manhattan Island. In response, Nyad did not apologize for — nor even acknowledge — her deception. Instead, she posted a blog entry full of excuses, justifications, irrelevant information, and more lies.
Continue reading “Diana’s GREAT Surprise, part 1”
Nyad’s “Fearless!” performance contained much of her usual crowd-pleasing poppycock, but she hit the mother lode with her original take on protective headgear.
As per my previous post, Diana Nyad appeared on the New Yorker Festival’s Fearless!: Life on the Edge panel on Saturday, October 7. Except for her religious conversion (see below), I heard nothing new…with one important exception: Ms. Nyad’s “Titanium Cap of Will.”
All quotes below come from Nyad at Fearless!.
Continue reading “The Manhattan Project, part 2: Diana Nyad’s Titanium Cap of Will”
Diana Nyad says that everyone who’s anyone has tried to swim the Florida Strait. I count six.
From the Brink of Midnight podcast, #9:
All the great swimmers of the ocean have tried [to swim from Cuba to Florida]—male, female, young, strong, fast. [28:05]
Complete nonsense.
Five people who are not Diana Nyad have attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida:
