A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile (53-kilometer) swim by reaching a sandy beach in France after darkness fell. | AP
The swim took her more than 14 hours, and she is the second American to cross the channel this year, the“As she leaves the beach in England for her English Channel attempt, I will be the proudest parent ever! Not if she finishes, not how fast she swims, but that she was brave enough to start,” Rivard’s mother, Darcie DeBlois-Rivard, wrote beforehand on Facebook.
After that, she booked a slot to swim the English Channel and has been training ever since in both the United States and Ireland, she said.Long distance swimmer Vera Rivard, 16, of Springfield, N.H., displays an American flag while aboard a vessel off the coast of France, late Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, after swimming the English Channel between Dover, England, and Calais, France.
In compliance with the Channel Swimming Association rules, Rivard did not leave the water or touch anyone or anything that floats for the duration of the swim. But she stopped to tread water every 45 minutes to eat an energy gel and powdered energy drink.“I knew I was either going to start in the dark or end in the dark because there aren’t enough hours in the day, so I put a light on the back of my goggles so the boat can see me more easily,” she said.
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