UC知道第一位横渡英吉利海峡的女性
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第一个版本:1951年,世界著名游泳选手查德威克(Florence Chadwick)成功地只身横渡英吉利海峡,创下了一项非凡的纪录。1953年,她决定再次挑战人类极限,创造一项新的纪录——从卡德林那岛游向加利福尼亚。
第二个版本:1926年8月7日,赛特鲁德·埃德尔（Gertrude Ederle,1906年10月23日生于纽约，美国游泳运动员）从法国Gris-Nez海角出发，在14小时39分钟后到达英国King sdown，成为第一个横渡英吉利海峡的妇女。在第8届夏季奥林匹克运动会上,"1926年横渡英吉利海峡的第一位女性盖·埃德勒在本届奥运会上却成绩不佳 ，在个人 赛中仅得了一枚铜牌，只有4×100米自由泳接力赛中得了块金牌。"说的也是她,只是名字翻译稍有不同而已.
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一九五一年,世界著名游泳选手查德威克(Florence Chadwick)成功地只身横渡英吉利海峡,创下了一项非凡的纪录。一九五三年,她决定再次挑战人类极限,创造一项新的纪录——从卡德林那岛游向加利福尼亚。
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. Now, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath, and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support boats. Sharks cruised toward her lone figure, only to be driven away by rifle shots. Against the frigid grip of the sea, she struggled on, hour after hour, while millions watched on national television.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to qu