FFS
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Post by FFS on Nov 18, 2021 21:01:40 GMT 1
Perhaps (perhaps? Definitely!) 12°C is too cold for me, but across the 122 km of Lake Titicaca, when you're a quadruple amputee, it's an effort worth making; he won't be alone, he has two able-bodied swimmers to share the progress, towing their raft behind them.
Would have liked to find an article from a UK publication, but I couldn't.
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Post by houpla on Nov 18, 2021 21:08:39 GMT 1
Given the average level of French humour, they'll be too busy falling about sniggering over the lake's name to publish anything coherent in the French press Quite a feet, oups, sorry, feat, though Good for him!
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Post by ajm on Nov 18, 2021 21:19:39 GMT 1
It's amazing what people can do. There is a German French horn player, born without arms,uses his feet to play and has just performed with the Bournemouth symphony orchestra (I think) in a public concert. All of a sudden my bad back doesn't feel so bad by comparison.
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suein56
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Post by suein56 on Nov 18, 2021 23:46:58 GMT 1
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FFS
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Post by FFS on Nov 19, 2021 6:18:38 GMT 1
Your link didn't open for me FFS Probably a dodgy website and your browser's protecting you.
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Post by pcpa on Nov 19, 2021 11:11:08 GMT 1
Uros brings back happy memories, its where I was ashamed to let a porter twice my age carry my main backpack over rough terrain, no amount of acclimatisation can equal being born at altitude and having the genetic makeup of your forefathers, Theo and all the swimmers will be significantly disadvantaged by the altitude.
The photographs show him training with arm palmes, as his lower limb amputations have retained his thighs then I think he will be wearing leg fins (palmes for the French scuba divers & fins for the english speaking ones) for the challenge as you should use the upper leg muscles with the lower leg almost rigid. My boss after my apprenticeship had one lower leg amputated, he could fin as fast as the best of the able bodied divers.
I wish him and the team every success!
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