Alice
05-22-2006, 04:18 PM
i read this earlier today and thought it was pretty cool...
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy has become one of the youngest persons to swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park.Braxton Bilbrey is a second-grader from Glendale, Arizona, who has completed several short-scale youth triathlons.
Bilbrey was accompanied on the estimated 1.4-mile swim by his coach, two other swimmers and a Coast Guard boat. (Watch "one in 10 million" swimmer train -- 1:03 (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:cnnVideo%28%27play%27,%27/video/us/2006/05/22/sevier.az.kid.swims.to.alcatraz.affl%27,%272006/05/29%27%29;))
As he reached shore, Braxton was besieged by reporters. He told them he considered his accomplishment "pretty cool."
continued here (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/alcatraz.swim.ap/index.html)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy has become one of the youngest persons to swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco's Aquatic Park.Braxton Bilbrey is a second-grader from Glendale, Arizona, who has completed several short-scale youth triathlons.
Bilbrey was accompanied on the estimated 1.4-mile swim by his coach, two other swimmers and a Coast Guard boat. (Watch "one in 10 million" swimmer train -- 1:03 (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:cnnVideo%28%27play%27,%27/video/us/2006/05/22/sevier.az.kid.swims.to.alcatraz.affl%27,%272006/05/29%27%29;))
As he reached shore, Braxton was besieged by reporters. He told them he considered his accomplishment "pretty cool."
continued here (http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/22/alcatraz.swim.ap/index.html)