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Limbless man to swim around world

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French athlete Philippe Croizon plans to swim around the world in record time in next four months.

Philippe Croizon became the first limbless man to swim the English Channel two years ago. The athlete lost all of his four limbs suffering an electric shock at the age of 26. Nearly two decades later he is set to realize his dream of swimming around the world.With his partner Arnaud Chassery he unveiled a plan that links all five continents swimming across a series of narrow straits.Two little people like us, two little men, were going to be able to build a bridge between the continents” said Philippe Croizon.The pair will first link Australia and Asia by swimming from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia. They will also cross the Red Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Strait, a journey that totals 85 kilometers or 53 miles.Croizon is the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel and hopes to prove with his latest challenge that nothing is impossible.The swimming pair is set to leave France on May 6.
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